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) Navigate your way through a maze and try a tongue twister.
Find the Pictures (page 2) Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Planet Puzzle (page 8) Figure out the answer to this outer-space question.
Thinking (page 13) Ponder what's happening in this book-repair area.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the saucepan, nail, and other objects.
Juggling Julie's Mix-Up (page 18) Solve this puzzle.
Wacky Races (page 25) Enjoy these challenges with some silly rules.
Crafts (page 32) Create a Father's Day gift, design a Tulip Rain Gauge, and make and play The Ants' Picnic Game.
Which Way? (page 36) Maneuver your way through this maze.
Loose Letters (page 36) Figure out the new words made as letters fall off of the signs.
BrainPlay (page 41) If you could ask the moon a question, what would you ask?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Find the abbreviations of all the U.S. states and Canadian provinces and territories hidden within the words in this scene.
ADVENTURE Rebecca Rides the Trail (page 30) This girl takes part in a 98-mile Texas Independence Trail ride on her horse each year.
FICTION Baseball Fever (page 22) Get the feeling of the game.
Malia's Chance to Dance (page 38) Malia is chosen to dance in the luau even after making a mistake.
HUMOR Jokes (page 15) Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 19) Tommy and Mabel make it home safe and sound after an unexpected encounter with bears.
Riddles (page 40) Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Your Own Pages (page 20) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Your Dream Vacations! (page 28) Kids share thoughts and drawings of vacations they would like to take.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers' concerns about consoling friends who did not get parts in a play and having trouble falling asleep.
REBUS Flowers for Mouse (page 12) Friends finally find the kind of flowers that Mouse can enjoy.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Corner (page 37) Learn what causes the rapids in a stream and try to figure out what messages birds are sending.
Dino Days (page 37) "Why did the number of fingers on theropod dinosaurs decrease?" Dino Don answers this question.
VALUES Goofus and Gallant® (page 8) Goofus uses the last tissue and leaves the empty box; Gallant refills the paper-towel holder after he uses the last paper towel.
VERSE The Fishing Trip (page 5)
Dandelions (page 15)