April 2007 Beginning Readers Guide
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)
Solve a kite puzzle and learn how to be a nature detective.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Fresh-Fruit Hunt (page 8)
Solve this puzzle.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the muffin, shoe, and other objects.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 18)
Discover at least 14 differences in the two pictures.
Thinking (page 25)
See what these people are doing to keep the Earth beautiful.
Crafts (page 30)
Make a tabletop egg-hunt game, create a finger-puppet zoo, and design a giraffe to hold pencils.
BrainPlay (page 38)
Name some things that can be delivered. Name some that can't.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find your way through the "Imagination Constellations" and solve some word puzzles.
FICTION
Lucy's Puppy (page 10)
This girl chooses a good name for her puppy.
The Best Easter Basket Ever (page 19)
Sara gets an Easter surprise.
Bear Hits a Home Run (page 36)
See why Bear has trouble hitting the ball.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
Riddles (page 34)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
Tongue Twisters (page 34)
Try these tongue twisters submitted by readers.
The Timbertoes® (page 35)
The family falls for Pa's April Fools' Day trick.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about worrying often and how to keep a dog from barking too much.
REBUS
Sticker Story (page 24)
Katie and Corey create their own book.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 12)
Find out why giraffes are so tall, and try an experiment with salt and pepper.
Dino Days (page 12)
"How can you tell if T.rex was a boy or girl?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
A Day in the Life of a Zookeeper (page 22)
These workers describe how they care for the animals.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus doesn't hold the door for others; Gallant does.
VERSE
Matzo Ball Soup (page 5)
April Snow (page 15)
Animal Storm (page 28)