Highlights® July 2007 Parent/Teacher Guide (Independent 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 ideas for fun things to do when it's sizzling outside and try a tongue twister.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the candle, pencil, and other objects.
Crafts (page 20)
Design an adventure staff and create a watermelon card that rocks.
Thinking (page 24)
Ponder what's happening in this rest-stop scene.
BrainPlay (page 39)
How can you learn to juggle?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find the differences between these two scenes.
ARTS
Spoonful of Music (page 16)
Learn how to make foot-stomping music with spoons.
FICTION
The Wrong Camp? (page 8)
Brandon uses his science-camp experience to help his team win a game at sports
camp.
Ask Arizona (page 22)
Arizona discovers ways to pass the time while homebound with a sprained ankle.
Throwing Fire (page 36)
Nou finds that cleverness is as important as strength when winning this contest.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
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 playing video games too much and
not getting gifts from a friend.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Letters (page 11)
Find out how static electricity is created.
Milk Jug Lumber (page 18)
Learn about the recycling of plastics.
When Stars Explode (page 26)
See what happens when a star dies.
Science Corner (page 34)
Discover why koalas sleep so much and see what causes giant shadows on mountains.
Dino Days (page 34)
"Why do paleontologists use jackhammers to get to the bones? Couldn't
that damage the bones?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Nature Watch (page 38)
Look for dragonflies.
WORLD CULTURES
Ride Like the Wind (page 30)
Young riders race for six miles across the Gobi Desert during a festival in
Mongolia.