December 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)
Identify a mystery photo and solve a basketball puzzle.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
What Am I? (page 8)
Read the clues to solve these puzzles.
Window Shopping (page 10)
Figure out which presents appear in all four windows.
Thinking (page 24)
Ponder what's happening in this Kwanzaa celebration scene.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the leaf, bell, and other objects.
Crafts (page 20)
Make a picture keepsake for your family, design a tambourine, and create and play a "Scrambled Legs" game.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Name some things that make you laugh.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find the 10 items that each have been replaced by a rhyming item.
FICTION
Zachary's Menorah (page 12)
This boy finds that his "different" menorah is special.
Not Another Candy Cane (page 36)
Natalie gives away all of her candy canes, but finds another one in her holiday stocking.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 35)
The family has fun in the snow.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
You Helped the Cartoonists! (page 19)
Readers create cartoon captions.
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 28)
Kids share pictures of and stories about creatures they created.
Your Own Pages (page 30)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about feeling shy and missing school because of a family trip.
REBUS
The Fox and the Crow (page 29)
This crow is tricked by the fox.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
What's for Dinner after Dark? (page 22)
Learn about animals that hunt for food at night.
Science Corner (page 25)
Think about why there are so many different kinds of saws and find out how polar bears can swim in cold water.
Dino Days (page 25)
"What were the first kinds of dinosaurs?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus tunes people out. Gallant listens to others when they're speaking to him.
VERSE
The Stars (page 5)
Snowy Coaster Ride (page 15)