Highlights® August 2007 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 peaceful-thoughts tree and enjoy some riddles.

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

Lost Clothes (page 6)
Try these word puzzles.

Alphabet Animals (page 7)
Use your ABC's to draw critters.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the toothbrush, ice skate, and other objects.

Checkerboard Art (page 30)
Take this drawing challenge.

Roller-Coaster Ride (page 30)
Solve this puzzle.

Thinking (page 31)
Ponder what's happening in this Japanese-garden scene.

Crafts (page 32)
Make and play music on a thumb piano, create matching friendship pictures, and design a pocket apron.

The Cat and the Mouse (page 36)
Play this game with friends.

Check . . . and Double Check (page 40)
Find 10 differences in these pictures.

BrainPlay (page 41)
Name something that you could not use to make a wall.

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find your way across this puzzle.

FICTION
Stuart, the Lucky Library Cat (page 12)
A feline finds out how special he is.

Devin Knows It's Time (page 38)
This boy finally gets to saddle up and help move the cattle to their summer pasture.

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

Riddles (page 30)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

The Timbertoes® (page 37)
See what happens when Mabel gets a new doll.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
What Do You Collect? (page 10)
Kids tell about their interesting collections.

Your Own Pages (page 24)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about losing things and a friend who can't keep a secret.

REBUS
A Tale of Two Mice (page 27)
Country Mouse finds that he prefers his home instead of the city.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Hide-and-Seek (page 22)
See how blending in can help a creature survive.

Science Corner (page 26)
Find out how planting trees can save energy in a building and try a nature-study trick.

Dino Days (page 26)
"How did dinosaurs chew?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
Goofus spends all of his money. Gallant saves some of his money.

VERSE
Squirrel in the Rain (page 5)

Overheard in Late Summer (page 15)

Grand Slam (page 18)