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) See five ideas for picnic fun and try a tongue twister.
Find the Pictures (page 2) Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Happy Birthday, U.S.A.! (page 8) Unscramble the letters to find ways to celebrate Independence Day.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the mitten, comb, and other objects.
Crafts (page 18) Design a Quilled Flag Decoration, create a "Let Freedom Jingle" noisemaker, and make and play a Stars and Stripes Game.
Bag It! (page 20) Solve this puzzle.
Here a Car, There a Car (page 24) Solve this puzzle.
What to Do, What to Do (page 24) A reader presents a dozen ideas to help overcome boredom.
Abracadabra Math (page 28) Try this math trick.
Watermelon-Banana Split (page 28) Make this cool treat.
Thinking (page 32) Ponder what's happening in this starry night scene.
BrainPlay (page 38) Without looking away from the page, name five things that are around you.
The Impossible Drawing Trick (page 39) Draw a circle with a dot in the middle of it without lifting your pencil from the paper.
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Find 15 differences in these two scenes.
FICTION Baby's First Word (page 10) The family thinks anything but baby's first word, "No!" would be fine until he says his second word, "Mine!"
Spend or Save? (page 26) Jeremy decides to keep saving his money for something big that he really wants.
HUMOR Jokes (page 15) Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 29) Tommy lands safely after the glider Pa built goes out of control.
Riddles (page 39) Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Ideas, Please! (page 12) Readers write thoughtful responses to questions posed by other kids.
Your Own Pages (page 34) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers' concerns about being scared of thunder and blow-dryers and about not seeing dad often enough.
REBUS Lightning Bugs (page 21) This boy watches the flash and glow of lightning bugs and then lets them go.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Try This! Catch the Fizz from Soda Pop (page 9) See what happens in this experiment and learn why.
Science Corner (page 33) Try an ice-melting experiment.
Dino Days (page 33) "Why did dinosaurs have scales?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES Goofus and Gallant® (page 8) When Goofus breaks something, he tries to hide it; Gallant admits what he did.
VERSE The Hippopotamaws (page 5)
Pool Rule (page 15)