Highlights® March 2008 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)
Celebrate springtime critters and make up your own holiday.
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.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Why might people buy books when they could borrow them from libraries?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Look carefully at this scene. Then turn the page and see how much you can remember.
ADVENTURE
Finding Cloud (page 16)
Rachel is thrilled to find a famous stallion during her visit to the wild-horse range in the Pryor Mountains, south of Billings, Montana.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 6)
Arizona realizes there are good times and bad times to play "The Imagination Game."
Poppy's Jalopy (page 20)
This old car is just perfect for adventures near and far.
The Tennin's Robe (page 30)
This celestial dancer provides herbs to help cure Jiko's sick mother.
HISTORY
Dipped in Chocolate (page 22)
A long time ago, the creator of popular chocolate bars was coated in ooey, gooey chocolate.
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.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Nature Watch (page 18)
Learn about swifts, birds that live throughout most of the United States and southern Canada.
Science Letters (page 24)
See how a short circuit can damage electrical equipment.
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.
How the Brain Fools the Eye (page 40)
Read about the mystery of "change blindness."
SPORTS
Soccer Speaks Many Languages (page 10)
Find out how a sport helped Innocent Ndayizeye in a refugee camp in Tanzania and in his new home in the United States.