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 ways to make a mom smile, and have an outer-space party for Astronomy Day.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the muffin, tack, and 39 other objects.
Thinking (page 19) Ponder what's happening in this river scene.
Crafts (page 28) Make some bendable critters, design a Mother's Day Message Ring, and create a colorful fish.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 30) Find at least 12 differences in these pictures.
Shoot Some Hoops! (page 35) Make this tabletop game.
BrainPlay (page 38) How might you communicate with people whose language you don't know?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Look at this photo, and then cover it and try to answer a series of questions about it.
FICTION Bert and Mert at the Zoo (page 6) These detectives solve a mystery.
Ask Arizona (page 16) After panicking, Arizona retraces her steps and finds her backpack.
The Fifth Reason (page 32) Freda realizes that she likes Cora after all.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Your Own Stories (page 9) Kids share tales they have written.
Your Own Pages (page 24) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers concerns about being afraid of a video game with scary characters and telling Mom about losing a shirt.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Nature Watch (page 20) Learn about bluegills.
How to Eat Scorpions (page 22) See how meerkat pups go to survival school.
Science Letters (page 30) Discover why people once thought the world was flat.
Science Corner (page 34) Find out why pussy willows grow small tufts that feel like cat fur, and make a simple glider.
Dino Days (page 34) "How do you know that dinosaurs had scales instead of fur?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
SPORTS "Changing-Up" Your Pitching (page 10) Find out how to throw a circle change-up.
WHAT A PRO KNOWS Jay O'Callahan: Painting Pictures with Words (page 40) This storyteller gives tips for telling tales.