Highlights® August 2009 Parent/Teacher Guide (Beginning Readers)
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)
Use tomatoes and veggies to form funny, edible creatures, and write a short story in which a new gadget from your imagination is part of everyday life.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Number Maze (page 8)
Figure out this puzzle.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the feather, fishhook, and other objects.
Thinking (page 28)
Ponder what's happening at this arts-and-crafts fair.
Crack the Code! (page 32)
Figure out Juliette's secret request.
Alliteration Art (page 32)
Describe three scenes using words that start with the same sound.
Crafts (page 34)
Design a Marble-Art Mobile, make and play Newspaper Golf, and create a Memory-Box Magnet.
Your Best Self (page 38)
These kids take turns on the water slide.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Name one thing that all the people in the world have in common.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find at least 10 items that have been replaced with rhyming items.
FICTION
Slippery Sam (page 6)
Sam's feet slide out of control, and he zooms into the sky.
Rocket Man (page 36)
Chris forgets he's angry and returns from his imaginary trip to space when his mom calls him to dinner.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 20)
The family tries to figure out why Mabel is digging a hole. Then she surprises them with mud pies.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Superheroes! (page 12)
Kids create and share their own superheroes.
Your Own Pages (page 24)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about not being able to stop reading and making friends at camp.
REBUS
Music in the Dark (page 29)
Firefly lights the way for this tiny band.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 21)
Try a friction experiment with water, and learn about baby whales.
Dino Days (page 21)
"What kinds of trees were around when the dinosaurs were around?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
An Opossum Named Poppy (page 22)
Discover how an opossum can be a good helper.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus takes the last scoop of chocolate peanut butter ice cream. Gallant shares.
The Bear Family (page 33)
Piddy overcomes his fear of the waves at the beach.
VERSE
My Dragon (page 5)
The Super Straw (page 15)
City Garden (page 32)