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 celebrating National Teacher Day and try a tongue twister.
Find the Pictures (page 2) Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Grape'anana Blender Drink (page 10) Mix up this tasty treat.
The Mystery Trip (page 11) Follow the clues and read the map to figure out where a family is going.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the boot, canoe, and other objects.
Thinking (page 19) Ponder what's happening in this art studio.
Basketball to Lemonade (page 24) Solve this puzzle.
Who's the Leader (page 28) Play this game with a group.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 32) Find 12 differences in these two pictures.
Crafts (page 34) Create a Puppet-Show Theater and All-Star Cast, make a Braided Bracelet, and wrap up a May Basket.
Your Best Self (page 38) A girl tells how her family shares chores and works as a team.
BrainPlay (page 39) Imagine yourself at 100 years old. What would you like to be doing?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Match each bug cartoon with its close-up photo.
FICTION Benny and the Missing Buzzer (page 12) Benny the bee finally finds his buzzer.
The Private I's and the Case of the Big Stink (page 40) Three sisters solve a smelly mystery.
HUMOR Jokes (page 15) Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 29) Tommy catches a real prize when he goes fishing.
Riddles (page 38) Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Your Own Pages (page 20) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers' concerns about watching too much TV and having trouble making crafts.
REBUS Trucks (page 33) B.J. sees all kinds of trucks, but when he hears one "honk, honk, honk," he knows his dad the tow-truck driver is home.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Winter's Tail (page 6) See the first dolphin to get a completely new tail.
Science Corner (page 18) Learn why clouds are always changing and try an experiment.
Dino Days (page 18) "Did meat eaters hide, then jump out at plant eaters, or did they just walk in and eat plant eaters?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES Goofus and Gallant® (page 10) Goofus complains when the line is long; Gallant waits patiently.
The Bear Family (page 25) Piddy learns to take turns.
VERSE Alley Cat (page 5)
Two Front Teeth (page 15)