Highlights® October 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)
Learn a new song and solve a puzzle.
Thinking (page 6)
Ponder what's happening in this parade scene.
A Secret Code from El Salvador (page 7)
Write coded messages.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the nail, shoe, and other objects.
Crafts (page 34)
Create festive finger clappers, "sew" your own scarecrow, and make and play two games.
BrainPlay (page 39)
What symbol would you like to see added to a computer keyboard or cell phone?
FICTION
Afraid of the Dark (page 8)
Quinn overcomes his fear.
Ask Arizona (page 18)
Arizona learns how to tell a good joke.
The Cupboard (page 30)
Rupert is surprised to find many treasures to fill his special cupboard.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
You Illustrated the Poem! (page 10)
Kids share their drawings.
Your Own Pages (page 28)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about scoring in basketball and a young sister who destroys things.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Monster Mold (page 20)
A student sees the value of laboratory accidents.
Space Junk (page 26)
Learn about the things that are floating in outer space.
Science Letters (page 33)
Find out what earwax is made of.
Science Corner (page 38)
See what made designs on a tree and discover why electrical cords are covered with plastic.
Dino Days (page 38)
"Could a small T. rex defeat a grown-up Spinosaurus in a fight?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 25)
Emily Stupi completed a triathlon to help cancer patients.
WORLD CULTURES
Dolls and Dance (page 40)
Learn about the Hindu festival of Navarathri.