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) Use tomatoes and veggies to form funny, edible creatures, and write a short story in which a new gadget from your imagination is part of everyday life.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the feather, fishhook, and other objects.
Thinking (page 28) Ponder what's happening at this arts-and-crafts fair.
Crafts (page 34) Design a Marble-Art Mobile, make and play Newspaper Golf, and create a Memory-Box Magnet.
BrainPlay (page 39) If you could be someone else for just one hour, who would you be, and what would you do in that hour?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Find at least 10 items that have been replaced with rhyming items.
FICTION Weatherpatch Island (page 10) A young inventor finds that the residents of Weatherpatch Island have no need for his weather-changing device.
Ask Arizona (page 16) Arizona overcomes her swimsuit shyness.
No Potato Chips (page 30) Rukiyah feels like an outsider when her older sister is fasting for Ramadan.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Your Superheroes! (page 12) Kids create and share their own superheroes.
Your Own Pages (page 24) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers concerns about not being able to stop reading and making friends at camp.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Letters (page 9) Find out why cats need whiskers.
Science Corner (page 21) Try a friction experiment with water, and learn about baby whales.
Dino Days (page 21) "What kinds of trees were around when the dinosaurs were around?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Discovering a New Galaxy (page 26) Learn about astronomers who made an important discovery.
SPORTS A Language All Their Own (page 40) This baseball team had a secret weapon--its own language.
WHAT A PRO KNOWS Ruth Fremson: Through the Camera Lens (page 18) This Pulizter-Prize-winning photographer shares some photography tips.