December 2005 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
Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the ring, sock, and other objects.
Thinking (page 31)
Figure out what's going on in this cafeteria scene.
Crafts You Can Make (page 32)
Design a Kwanzaa drum, and make a balloon game.
BrainPlay (page 37)
How do you think farmers decide what to plant where?
Bustle at the BusyLot (page 43)
Discover the similarities in this shopping scene.
FICTION
Miss Perfect (page 10)
Kim's essay wins the contest.
Bark! The Herald Angels Sing (page 38)
This Christmas pageant ends with a surprise.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Best Homemade Gifts (page 20)
Kids tell about great presents they have given and received.
Your Own Pages (page 26)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about starting a club and a new baby in the family.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Red-Crab Invasion! (page 6)
Find out why these critters crawl all over Christmas Island.
Science Letters (page 18)
"How high is the Moon?" Senior Science Editor Jack Myers, Ph.D., answers this and other questions.
Science Corner (page 24)
Try an experiment with water, and learn about vultures.
Dino Days (page 24)
"What color were most dinosaurs?" Dino Don Lessem answers this
question.
Making Candy Sparks (page 41)
Discover the reason for the "sparks."
SPORTS
Dan Jansen (page 16)
Perseverance paid off for this speed skater who won an Olympic gold medal.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 19)
Meet Abdul Hafiz, who led the cleanup of a Staten Island pond.
VERSE
Carol of the Brown King (page 2)
WORLD CULTURES
Look! An Inuksuk (page 5)
See stone "messengers" that have ancient beginnings.
Santa in Cyprus (page 28)
Presents come with the New Year's celebration on this island.