Highlights® September 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)
Paint scenes from your home or neighborhood, and throw a mystery party.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 13)
Find at least 12 differences in these pictures.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the ice-cream bar, baseball bat, and other objects.
Walk Through an Index Card (page 24)
Try this with an index card and a pair of scissors.
Crafts (page 26)
Make some Bead Bugs, design Artist Trading Cards, and create and play a "Launch the Yarn Ball" game.
Funny Fold-Ups (page 32)
Get ready to laugh with these paper-passing games.
Thinking (page 33)
Ponder what's happening at this printing press.
Your Best Self (page 38)
These kids think of others and don't write in a magazine.
BrainPlay (page 39)
In ten years, what will be different in your life?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find the similarities among various musicians in the Critterville Middle-School Band.
FICTION
Three Bits Better (page 20)
Granny Gert battles a cold but is finally well enough to return to work with her dog, Wagon Wheel.
Michael's Manners (page 40)
Michael learns to use his great big box of manners.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 19)
Tommy and Mabel have a long race.
Riddles (page 38
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Tongue Twisters (page 8)
Try saying these tricky sentences submitted by kids.
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 12)
Kids share drawings and descriptions of creatures they created.
Your Own Pages (page 30)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about ruining a popular reputation and getting distracted when doing homework.
REBUS
Prince Maynard's New Pet (page 25)
This prince finds the purr-fect pet.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
An Eye Out for Owls (page 6)
By following clues, an author/photographer "catches" owls on camera.
Science Corner (page 18)
Discover why opossums might stop moving, and draw a nature map.
Dino Days (page 18)
"What color were T. rex's eggs?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus leaves his dirty dishes for someone else to take care of. Gallant helps with the dishes.
VERSE
Miss Molly Mop with the 7s on Top (page 5)
Scampy Dances (page 15)
A Silly Yarn (page 38)