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) Solve a word puzzle, and create some pancake-related tongue twisters.
Find the Pictures (page 2) Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the key, mug, and other objects.
Presidents in Disguise (page 19) Solve this presidential puzzle.
Crafts (page 20) Make and use a secret cipher disk, design a gear-rific valentine, and create a shadow-box sports frame.
Thinking (page 35) Ponder how life was different in the time of President George Washington.
BrainPlay (page 39) If someone were to give you a box, what would you hope to find in it?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Find at least 10 things that look the same in these two pictures.
FICTION The Valentine Swap (page 16) One valentine card has a busy day.
The Hedley Kow (page 30) A woman loses gold and other riches in this folktale, but believes that she's still the luckiest person in the world.
HUMOR Jokes (page 15) Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 28) The family creates a special valentine greeting.
Riddles (page 38) Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Your Backpack Buddies! (page 6) Kids share their creations.
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 being a member of too many school clubs and being teased.
REBUS The Lost Mittens (page 11) Matt finds his mittens in an unexpected place.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Corner (page 18) Find out what "horsepower" means, and try an experiment with water.
Dino Days (page 18) "Is there any other very good meat eater than T. rex?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Putting Their Best Foot Forward (page 36) See how these birds use their feet.
VALUES Goofus and Gallant® (page 10) Goofus doesn't care about class elections; Gallant thinks about what's best for the school.
The Bear Family (page 34) Poozy finds a new friend.
Your Best Self (page 38) This girl decides its best not to pass a note in class.
VERSE What's for Breakfast? (page 5)
Friendship (page 15)