Highlights® June 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)
Get some ideas for Father's Day fun, and plan a Summer-Kickoff Party.

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

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

Crafts (page 28)
Design a Flip-Flop Scrapbook, create a trophy for Dad, and make a Plains Indian Shield.

Thinking (page 35)
Ponder what's happening in this zoo scene.

Your Best Self (page 38)
These kids use lights while riding bikes in the dark.

BrainPlay (page 39)
If you stretch, can you make yourself taller? Why or why not?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find at least 13 differences in these two pictures.

FICTION
The King Bathes His Dog (page 6)
The king solves the problem of getting the soap suds off of his dog.

Danny and the Triangle (page 16)
Dad finds a great instrument for Danny.

Ants Are Marching (page 34)
This girl discovers what happens when you eat cookies in bed.

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

The Timbertoes® (page 37)
Mabel isn't the only one who runs to Ma and Pa after becoming scared at night. Tommy is there, too.

Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Look Out Your Window! (page 18)
Kids show and tell what they see outdoors.

Tongue Twisters (page 31)
Try to say these tricky sentences submitted by kids.

Your Own Pages (page 32)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers= concerns about bragging and finding a Father's Day gift.

REBUS
Cock-a-Doodle Doo! (page 24)
Rooster realizes that greeting the sun is the best job for him.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Elephant's Trunk: An All-in-One Tool (page 8)
See how an elephant's trunk is handy for doing many things.

Science Corner (page 20)
Try an experiment, and learn about the camel's hump.

Dino Days (page 20)
"How did the first dinosaurs know what food to eat and where to find it?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
The Bear Family (page 21)
The cubs bike safely to the store but forget the shopping list.

Goofus and Gallant® (page 31)
Goofus gets in the pool when there is not a lifeguard on duty; Gallant swims only when a lifeguard is watching.

VERSE
Daddy Fell into the Pond (page 5)

Bubbles (page 15)