Highlights® July 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)
Celebrate Parents' Day, and learn the "why" behind the Fourth of July.

Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.

Word-Square Puzzles (page 10)
Solve these puzzles.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the muffin, trowel, and other objects.

Creature Columns (page 18)
Figure out what these creatures have in common.

Thinking (page 25)
Ponder what's happening at this neighborhood celebration.

Crafts (page 32)
Create and use a megaphone, design a treasure jar, and make and play a cereal-box soccer game.

Check . . . and Double Check (page 34)
Find at least 12 differences in these pictures.

Your Best Self (page 38)
These kids talk about the best way to do a summer project.

BrainPlay (page 39)
If chalk could talk, what do you think it might say?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Use the clues to trace a path from start to finish.

FICTION
Sunny Solves a Mystery (page 8)
This young detective finds the lost sock but loses her detective kit.

The Leprechaun's Clever Trick (page 18)
A farmer tries to find a pot of gold in this retelling of an Irish folktale.

A Letter from Camp (page 22)
This boy has adventures at Camp of the Lonesome Whispering Pine.

HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.

The Timbertoes® (page 19)
The family goes sailing when Tommy catches a big fish.

Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 28)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about reminding people to stop littering and feeling left out after a new baby is born.

REBUS
The Thinking Game (page 35)
Ana finds her missing baseball.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 24)
Discover what Saturn's rings are made of, and collect tree textures.

Dino Days (page 24)
"Have all the dinosaur bones already been found?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 10)
Goofus goes on a hike unprepared; Gallant brings the things he needs.

VERSE
When Cats Dance (page 5)

The Birthday Bash (page 15)