Highlights® June 2009 Parent/Teacher Guide (Independent Readers)

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) Get some ideas for Father's Day fun, and plan a Summer-Kickoff Party.

South Seas Treasure Hunt (page 12) Navigate this nautical puzzle and discover the treasure that awaits.

Sidewalk Games (page 13) Play these games for some outdoor fun.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the trowel, pinwheel, and other objects.

Crafts (page 28) Design a Flip-Flop Scrapbook, create a trophy for Dad, and make a Plains Indian Shield.

Thinking (page 35) Ponder what's happening in this zoo scene.

BrainPlay (page 39) If you were a fish in an aquarium, what about your life would be different, and what would be the same?

Picture Puzzler (page 43) Find at least 13 differences in these two pictures.

FICTION Ask Arizona (page 10) Max and Arizona solve a mystery at school.

Little Mo (page 22) Little Mo's height is an advantage on the baseball field, but then he grows taller.

The Rune Hunt (page 40) =Once she knows what to look for, Hildr spots runes everywhere.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Look Out Your Window! (page 18) Kids show and tell what they see outdoors.

Tongue Twisters (page 31) Try to say these tricky sentences submitted by kids.

Your Own Pages (page 32) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers= concerns about bragging and finding a Father's Day gift.

SCIENCE AND NATURE How to Fold a Giant Telescope (page 7) An origami expert helps scientists figure out how to fold a giant telescope so it can be sent into space.

Science Corner (page 20) Try an experiment, and learn about the camel's hump.

Dino Days (page 20) "How did the first dinosaurs know what food to eat and where to find it?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

Science Letters (page 25) Find out how chicks breathe inside eggs.

Frogs in the Closet (page 26) Scientists help save threatened frogs from the rain forest.

Try This! Yellow Sun and Blue Sky (page 36) Create the sky's colors in your kitchen.

VALUES Gallant Kids (page 30) Jeffrey Poon volunteers at the riding program that helps his brother and other kids.