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) Create a game for World Smile Day®, solve a puzzle, and try some activities with pumpkins.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find more than two dozen objects in this two-page puzzle.
Crafts (page 26) Design a double Sukkot puzzle, make and use some finger puppets, and create a tie-dye leaf mobile.
Thinking (page 35) Ponder what's happening at this football game.
Sweet Noodle Pudding (page 39) Try this recipe for the pudding Muslims make to break the fast during Ramadan.
Key-Coded Composers (page 39) Solve this musical puzzle.
BrainPlay (page 41) How might a person measure the speed at which a stream is flowing?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Navigate through this maze and answer the bonus questions.
ARTS E.B. White and His Spiders (page 32) See how watching a spider spin her web helped this author create Charlotte, a character readers love.
FICTION Ask Arizona (page 16) Arizona discovers that she can stay in contact with her friend who moved.
Bad Pudding (page 22) Aunt Sylvie's pudding has a mind of its own.
Pasha's First Yom Kippur (page 36) Although it's difficult, Pasha must apologize to and forgive David, who was unkind to him.
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 having a good life and being afraid of getting hurt while skateboarding.
SCIENCE AND NATURE A Giant Panda (page 8) See how a tiny panda grows.
Science Corner (page 24) Find out how a pinecone from a lodgepole pine can be opened, and think about who invented the wheel.
Dino Days (page 24) "Did Utahraptor have feathers?" Dino Don Lessem answers this and other questions.
Science Letters (page 34) Find out why big empty trucks go faster than full trucks.
VALUES Gallant Kids (page 7) Jon Thomas Robertson has made it possible for many kids to experience train rides.