Looking for opportunities to help your students learn with Highlights? This monthly guide to the magazine will help you find stories and activities that suit your students' reading level.
ACTIVITIES Fun This Month (page 2) Get ideas of things to do on a rainy day.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the canoe, saltshaker, and other objects.
Thinking (page 18) Ponder what's happening as these kids fly kites.
Crafts (page 24) Make a Sock Bunny, design Greeting-Card Magnets, and create some Backyard Art.
BrainPlay (page 39) What does it mean to exercise?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Solve these riddles by reading the "clock."
ADVENTURE Sailing to San Blas (page 20) This American family learns about life among the Kuna Indians.
ARTS Storybirds (page 10) The Gumaelius family creates art together.
FICTION Ask Arizona (page 16) Arizona discovers that jealousy is an annoyingly pointless emotion.
One Froggy Night (page 26) This boy finds a fun surprise on a "froggy night."
Abigail, Enough! (page 36) This gymnast gets a chance to use her talent and energy.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS You Helped the Cartoonists! (page 9) These kids created cartoon captions.
Your Own Pages (page 30) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
April Fool! (page 34) Kids and some Highlights editors share some prank ideas, tips, and thoughts about April Fools' Day.
Tongue Twisters (page 38) Readers share some tricky sentences.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers' concerns about forgetting things and sharing a room with a sibling.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Corner (page 12) Try an experiment with ice cubes.
Dino Days (page 12) "What is your favorite dinosaur?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Science Letters (page 29) Learn how earthworms "see" without having eyes like humans.
How I Became a Backyard Biologist (page 35) Dan Kriesberg tells how his observations as a child helped him become a wildlife biologist.
Where Walruses Chill Out (page 40) See how life for walruses rests on ice.
WORLD CULTURES Celebrating Easter in the Dark (page 32) An exchange student in the Ukraine learns about the celebration of Easter in a Russian Orthodox church.