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) Solve two puzzles and get some ideas for taking a good mood to school.
Thinking (page 11) Ponder what's happening in this art-supply store scene.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14) Find the sailboat, candle, and other objects.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 20) Find 12 differences in these pictures.
Crafts (page 30) Create a papier-mâché pig bank, design a Y-rattle, and make and play a Sun-orbiting game.
BrainPlay (page 41) Is it possible to be in two places at the same time? Why or why not?
FICTION Ask Arizona (page 8) Arizona realizes that she has spent too much time watching television and listening to CDs.
Hero, There-o (page 18) Jack can't figure out why the townspeople are so excited.
Mystery Club (page 38) Marisa discovers reasons to like her new school.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 7) These creatures were created by kids.
Your Own Pages (page 26) Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
You Drew the Ending! (page 34) Kids drew the final panel of this story.
Dear Highlights (page 42) The editors deal with readers' concerns about moving and receiving e-mail from people they don't know.
SCIENCE AND NATURE Nature Watch (page 10) Learn about pocket gophers.
Science Letters (page 20) Find out why we can't remember things from when we were babies.
Walking like a Dinosaur (page 32) See what creature struts like a dinosaur.
Science Corner (page 40) Discover how deep the ocean is and think about why there are so many kinds of wheels.
Dino Days (page 40) "Did female dinosaurs fight over their mates the way males did?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
SPORTS Andy Macdonald: Skateboarding Sensation (page 16) See how this young man has worked hard to reach the top of his sport.
WORLD CULTURES An Alarm Clock That Crows! (page 24) Ranga proves that his rooster is a reliable alarm clock.