Highlights® February 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)
Celebrate Pay-a-Compliment Day and find your way through a maze.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Time Slipping By (page 8)
Figure out this puzzle.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the bird, party hat, and other objects.
Crafts (page 32)
Make a gumball-machine magnet, design a treasure chest and map, and create a Valentine mask.
Thinking (page 35)
Ponder what's happening is this street-market scene.
BrainPlay (page 39)
What are some things that you see on sunny days?
FICTION
No More Allowance (page 12)
Todd's plan to earn more allowance money backfires at first, then works out OK.
Trina's Unusual Day (page 40)
This girl looks forward to a totally usual day.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 27)
Pa uncovers something special as he tears down his old workshop.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
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 helping out in the community and jumping rope.
REBUS
Homemade Maple Syrup (page 19)
This boy and his dad make their own pancake syrup.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
A Prickly Adventure (page 28)
See how a lost baby porcupine stays safe in the woods.
Science Corner (page 30)
Figure out which plants stay green in the winter and find out what makes hail.
Dino Days (page 30)
"Could dinosaurs breathe fire?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus has to be reminded to brush his teeth; Gallant brushes and flosses regularly.
VERSE
I Asked the Little Boy Who Cannot See (page 5)
A Loving Poem (page 15)