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 energy-saving tips, and have a baking party.
Thinking (page 7) Ponder what's happening in this cave.
Hidden Pictures (page 14) Find the sailboat, ice-cream bar, and other objects.
Crafts (page 34) Create and wear Bigfoot Shoes, design a Necktie Change Purse, and make a Shoebox Piñata.
BrainPlay (page 39) What are some things a person can do to calm down when feeling anxious?
Picture Puzzler (page 43) Identify these mystery photos of common household items.
ARTS Catch of the Day (page 28) This artist uses fish to create beautiful prints.
FICTION Ask Arizona (page 16) Arizona realizes that borrowing things might not be the best idea after she has to replace Ollie's CD.
A Different Kind of Divali (page 24) Diksha's new friends in the United States help her celebrate the Indian festival of lights.
Small Talk (page 40) Brad finds that his classmates are laughing with him, not at him.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS You Illustrated the Poem! (page 20) Kids share the pictures they created after reading the poem "They."
Your Own Pages (page 26) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers concerns about sleeping with a nightlight and not knowing what to give as gifts.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Science Letters (page 10) Find out what makes meteoroids and comets in outer space.
Science Corner (page 19) Learn how to figure out the age of some trees, and try an experiment with water.
Dino Days (page 19) "How big was the biggest dino scat?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
What's a Bear to Eat? (page 36) Learn why "people food" makes a dangerous diet for bears.
SPORTS Born to Run (page 12) Get on track with this popular sport.