Highlights® October 2008 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)
Create a game for World Smile Day® and try some activities with pumpkins.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Aha! A Puzzle (page 6)
Figure out this mystery.
Photo Fiasco (page 10)
Put the pictures in order.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find more than two dozen objects in this two-page puzzle.
Playing in the Leaves (page 19)
Solve this puzzle.
Crafts (page 26)
Design a double Sukkot puzzle, make and use some finger puppets, and create a tie-dye leaf mobile.
Monsters on the Menu (page 31)
Create a creature or two and munch a monster lunch!
Thinking (page 35)
Ponder what's happening at this football game.
Your Best Self (page 40)
This girl encourages a friend to treat others as she wants to be treated.
BrainPlay (page 41)
Name something you do that is polite.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Navigate through this maze and answer the bonus questions.
ARTS
Rattlesnake Crossing (page 12)
This snake-like bridge helps people cross the street.
FICTION
The Crooked Pumpkin (page 28)
Nicholas hides a pumpkin and gets a surprise the following year.
The Rain Cloud and the Camel (page 38)
Although the camel prefers the desert, it welcomes a visit from the rain cloud.
Last-Minute Ghost (page 39)
This kid makes a quick Halloween costume.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 19)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 25)
Pa creates a new game for the family.
Riddles (page 40)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about having a good life and being afraid of getting hurt while skateboarding.
REBUS
A Gift for Farmer Ben (page 18)
Each of the animals has a gift for their friend the farmer.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 24)
Find out how a pinecone from a lodgepole pine can be opened, and think about who invented the wheel.
Dino Days (page 24)
"Did Utahraptor have feathers?" Dino Don Lessem answers this and other questions.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
Goofus blames his dog for chewing the glove he left outside; Gallant admits that he should have put his belongings away.
The Bear Family (page 30)
The family practices its fire-safety plan.
VERSE
A Good Play (page 5)
A Wise Old Owl (page 6)