Highlights® January 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)
Brainstorm ideas for new inventions, and find your way through a maze.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the clock, screwdriver, and other objects.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 20)
Find at least 12 differences in these two pictures.
Crafts (page 32)
Make and play Bocce in a box, design a Chinese dragon puppet, and create a penguin pal.
Thinking (page 34)
Ponder what's happening in this city scene.
BrainPlay (page 39)
In what ways are you clever? Silly? Mysterious? Kind?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Solve these puzzles to figure out six well-known phrases.
FICTION
Penguin Hill (page 6)
Pete overcomes his fear and sleds down the hill.
Juicy and Sweet, Good to Eat! (page 28)
A new sign improves business at Tyrone's shop.
HUMOR
Animal Hee-Haws (page 12)
Enjoy jokes, riddles, and cartoons about critters.
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 21)
The family forms a band.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
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 getting in trouble when helping another student and wanting to improve drawing skills.
REBUS
Lost and Found (page 31)
Kaiti and Zoe find their rug when they clean their room.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 30)
Learn why stars seem so bright during the winter, and try an experiment.
Dino Days (page 30)
"Why did the Coelophysis eat its baby?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus borrows an item without permission; Gallant gets permission before borrowing something.
Your Best Self (page 38)
These kids invite a newcomer to join their book club.
VERSE
Martin Luther King Jr. (page 5)
The Perfect Cure (page 15)