Highlights® March 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 springtime critters and make up your own holiday.

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

Milky Way Mystery Word (page 8)
Complete this word puzzle.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the banana, scissors, and other objects.

Thinking (page 19)
Ponder what's happening in this science-museum scene.

Crafts (page 26)
Make Easter-egg animals, design and play a basketball game, and create a St. Patrick's Day card.

Your Best Self (page 38)
These kids work together to present a show.

BrainPlay (page 39)
If frogs had pets, what kinds do you think they'd have?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Look carefully at this scene. Then turn the page and see how much you can remember.

ARTS
Look Out for Tin Men! (page 25)
These funny figures can be made from metal parts.

FICTION
The Mystery of the Magic Lunch Bag (page 12)
Sheila solves a lunch-bag mystery.

The Bunch of Bananas (page 36)
These monkeys make a big mistake in asking other people to finish the chore they were supposed to do.

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

The Timbertoes® (page 33)
After a hard day of doing chores, the family decides that it would be best to clean a little every day.

Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 28)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Your Ideas, Please! (page 34)
Kids provide answers to questions asked by other readers.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about being greedy and sharing a computer password.

REBUS
The Easter Egg Hunt (page 9)
Lily finds the last egg in a tree.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 32)
Figure out how many ways you could sail around the world, and discover why daffodils bloom so early.

Dino Days (page 32)
"How did dinosaurs keep their teeth clean?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus stays outside during a storm; Gallant goes inside when there's thunder and lightning.

VERSE
My Lizard (page 5)

Rabbit Secrets (page 15)