April 2007 Independent 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.
April Foolery (page 13)
Enjoy April Fools' Day with an upside-down, turned-around, backward celebration.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the muffin, shoe, and other objects.
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)
How do animals know when it's time for them to sleep?
ARTS
Seeing the Last Supper for the First Time (page 9)
Learn about the restoration of a Leonardo da Vinci painting.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 6)
Arizona overcomes bad dreams
The Apple-Pie Monster (page 26)
The townspeople discover a new kind of pie to keep a monster happy.
Night Watch (page 40)
Alan overcomes his fear.
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.
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.
What Dinosaurs Left Behind (page 16)
Fossil footprints led two boys to a big discovery.
Science Letters (page 18)
"Can a voice get loud enough and high enough that a glass can break?" Senior Science Editor Jack Myers, Ph.D., answers this question.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 29)
These kids came up with a fire-escape plan and used it.
WORLD CULTURES
Dance of a Thousand Years (page 32)
These young women learn the traditional dances of their Cambodian culture.