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) Find your way through a maze and try a tongue twister.
Thinking (page 13) Ponder what's happening in this book-repair area.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the saucepan, nail, and other objects.
Crafts (page 32) Create a Father's Day gift, design a Tulip Rain Gauge, and make and play The Ants' Picnic Game.
BrainPlay (page 41) Is it easy to forgive someone who has hurt your feelings? Why or why not?
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.
FICTION Ask Arizona: The Truth About Lies (page 6) Arizona finds that it's better not to tell a fib and to be honest in the first place.
It's Dark Down There! (page 18) Nasreddin Hodja is featured in the retelling of this Old Turkish Tale.
Papa's New Pants (page 26) After saying they're all too busy, these family members end up helping a little too much.
The Yard Sale (page 34) Becca lowers the price and finds a great home for her stuffed bunny.
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.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Squirrels That Smell Like Snakes (page 16) Find out how a scientist figured out why some squirrels take snakeskin baths.
Science Letters (page 24) Learn whether all flamingos are pink.
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 Gallant Kids (page 9) Haley Humes and Hayley Jeffries found a way to help animals.
WORLD CULTURES Dragons Race on Water (page 10) Learn about the oldest Chinese festival, which was first celebrated more than 2,000 years ago.