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.
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.
Thinking (page 32) Ponder what's happening in this starry night scene.
BrainPlay (page 38) What are some clues that tell you how someone is feeling?
FICTION Tools for a Giant Task (page 16) Colin the Storyteller uses the most powerful weapon of all to scare away a giant.
Ask Arizona (page 22) Arizona learns to watch out when other kids try to control choices she should make for herself.
Christmas in July (page 40) Twin sisters find a great way to have a unique Christmas card picture taken in July.
HISTORY Thomas Jefferson Is Homesick (page 36) Despite longing to go home to Virginia, Thomas Jefferson stayed in Philadelphia and finished writing the Declaration of Independence in the hot summer of 1776.
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.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Letters (page 20) Find out how a zipper works.
Nature Watch (page 28) Learn about the killdeer, a bird that lives throughout much of the United States and Canada.
It Rained Cement (page 30) Discover what happened when it rained after a volcano eruption in Ecuador.
Science Corner (page 33) Try an ice-melting experiment.
Dino Days (page 33) "Why did dinosaurs have scales?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
SPORTS The Goalkeeper (page 6) Sports helped Tim Howard through some rough years after he was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome.
VERSE A Sense of Indonesia (page 25)