Highlights® January 2013 Parents' Guide

Looking for opportunities to help your kids learn with Highlights? This monthly guide to the magazine will help you find the stories and activities that suit your child’s reading level and interests.

CHILDREN’S CONTRIBUTIONS

Each issue of Highlights features creative work from children. While we cannot publish every submission, the staff of Highlights writes personal responses to every letter.

  • Tongue Twisters (page 6)
  • Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 7)
  • Jokes (page 15)
  • Your Own Pages (page 34)
  • Riddles (page 38)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

NONFICTION

  • Ocean Orca (page 5)

    Science, poetry, moderate

  • What’s That You’re Saying? (page 12)

    Sports, advanced

  • A New View of Earth (page 22)

    Science, moderate

  • Try This! Kitchen Mystery . . . Solved! (page 26)

    Science, advanced

  • My Sci (page 28)

    Science, advanced

  • The Rescue (page 31)

    Science, poetry, moderate

  • Foxes in the City (page 40)

    Science, advanced

FICTION

  • The Chicken-and-a-Million-Vegetables Report (page 8)

    Story, moderate

  • Grandma's Pickles (page 15)

    Poetry, advanced

  • Ask Arizona®: A Sweet—and—Spicy! Welcome (page 16)

    Story, advanced

  • Little Mouse's Rainy Day (page 19)

    Rebus, early

  • There's a Frog in His Throat (page 24)

    Story, moderate

  • The Timbertoes® (page 27)

    Story, early

  • Game On! Up and Over (page 32)

    Story, advanced

  • The Traveling Pillow (page 36)

    Story, moderate

MORE FUN WITH A PURPOSE®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
  • Thinking (page 11)
  • Hidden Pictures® Puzzle (page 14)
  • Crafts (page 20)
  • BrainPlay (page 39)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)
  • What's Wrong?™ (back cover)