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.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the boot, canoe, and other objects.
Thinking (page 19) Ponder what's happening in this art studio.
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.
BrainPlay (page 39) What does it mean to say that someone "goes out on a limb"?
FICTION Oh, Brother! (page 8) It takes time for this girl to realize that her new stepbrother is really trying to be a good brother, in his own way.
Ask Arizona (page 16) Arizona finds out that moms pretty much always like anything you make with love.
Runaway Blue (page 26) A blue pancake outsmarts everyone and gets away.
HISTORY A Totem Pole Comes Home (page 30) A piece of history makes a long journey from Sweden to a small village in Canada.
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.
SCIENCE AND NATURE 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.
Nature Watch (page 28) See the painted lady butterfly that lives on every continent except Australia and Antarctica.
Science Letters (page 32) Find out why engines need oil and learn about snakes.
Stars That Aren't Round (page 36) Discover squooshed stars.
SPORTS What a Pro Knows (page 22) Olympic Gold Medalist Tamika Catchings, who was born partially deaf, says that is what motivated her to become the star she is today.