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) Try a tongue twister and have an archaeology party.
Thinking (page 11) Ponder what's happening at this Renaissance Fair.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the nail, sock, and other objects.
Time-Capsule Mystery (page 20) Solve this puzzle.
Crafts (page 30) Make a big checkers set, design a daisy note-holder, and create some cute scrub bugs.
BrainPlay (page 41) What makes a poem a poem?
FICTION Ask Arizona (page 6) Ollie and Arizona realize that it helps to follow the instructions when assembling a tent.
The Story-Time Dragon (page 16) A princess helps a three-headed dragon.
Canning Day (page 38) Angelo finds fun in his aunt's kitchen project.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Your Own Pages (page 24) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Your Alphabet Animals (page 37) Kids devised these ways to form animals using only letters of the alphabet.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers concerns about liking a different team than friends like, and being teased about having a friend of the opposite gender.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Letters (page 18) Find out what makes copper turn green.
Revealing Nature's Wonders (page 22) Learn how a young boy's interest sparked by a teacher led to his eventual creation of a field guide about birds and many other books.
Science Corner (page 34) Think about how different materials are used, and learn why horses wear metal shoes.
Dino Days (page 34) "Where and when did the dinosaurs meet?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
SPORTS Allyson Felix: Speed Queen (page 32) The girl once called "chicken legs" has her eyes on Olympic gold.
VALUES Gallant Kids (page 21) These kids knit caps to help save babies' lives.
WORLD CULTURES Playing Around and Around . . . (page 29) This merry-go-round pumps water while kids play in South Africa.