December 2008 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)
Play End-of-Year Charades and use some easy gift ideas.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Thinking (page 9)
Ponder what's happening in this bakery scene.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the paintbrush, bell, and other objects.
Sport-Shuffle Mystery (page 24)
Solve this puzzle.
Celebrate Hanukkah with a Game (page 29)
Make a dreidel and play the game.
Crafts (page 32)
Make and play a tree-topper game, design a cookie tray, and create some family-fun candles.
Snowy Bird Feeder (page 38)
Create this bird feeder from snow.
BrainPlay (page 41)
If you could choose any song to be your family's theme song, what would it be?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find your way through this maze, discover two matching snowflakes, and solve a puzzle.
FICTION
Panda Makes a Bookmark (page 12)
Panda's knitting project turns out to be just the right size after it shrinks in the dryer.
A Tooth Tale (page 36)
David and the Tooth Fairy resolve a misunderstanding.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 21)
Tommy finds someone to admire his drawing.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Catching the "Nice Bug" (page 18)
Kids share stories about acts of kindness.
Your Own Pages (page 34)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about earning money and daydreaming in class.
REBUS
Let's Paint (page 25)
Luke finds that 1 + 1 makes green.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 20)
Try an experiment, and find out how a soft squid can chew its food.
Dino Days (page 20)
"What was more dangerous, a male or female T. rex?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Bug-zilla on the Hunt (page 26)
Learn about a caterpillar that eats other insects.
VALUES
Your Best Self (page 8)
These kids do something nice for their parents.
Goofus and Gallant® (page 24)
Goofus ignores the "Do Not Touch." sign. Gallant respects the rules.
The Bear Family (page 39)
The cubs learn that not all families celebrate the same holidays.
VERSE
Mice's Song (page 5)
The Christmas Story (page 15)