January 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)
Discover the Arctic animals in a puzzle, and try some body teasers.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the comb, feather, and other objects.
Thank-you Notes (page 15)
Write some notes to thank people for gifts received during the holiday season.
A Pangram Puzzler (page 20)
Figure out this puzzle, and create your own pangram.
Crafts (page 26)
Make mix-and-match magnet pals, create a game to choose chores, and design invitations for a theme party.
Thinking (page 37)
Ponder what's happening in this snow-sculpture-making scene.
BrainPlay (page 41)
What does it mean to have courage?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find at least 10 mistakes in this map.
FICTION
Where's Ralph the Mouse? (page 11)
This girl can find all of her pets except one.
Bunk-Bed Blues (page 38)
Levi sees that there are advantages to both the top and bottom bunks of a bunk bed.
HISTORY
Patriotic Pizza (page 8)
Discover how pizza became a popular food.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes (page 21)
Ma finally falls asleep.
Riddles (page 36)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
You're the Cartoonist! (page 16)
Kids share artwork they created for cartoon captions.
Your Own Pages (page 32)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about people copying jokes and not being able to keep a secret about a present.
REBUS
Hannah's Wings (page 34)
See how Hannah finds her wings.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 28)
Try an experiment, and learn why hot drinks become cold.
Dino Days (page 28)
"Do you know why Spinosaurus had a huge sail on its back?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 10)
Goofus forgets his part of a school project; Gallant remembers his obligations.
The Bear Family (page 29)
The family agrees to keep its holiday spirit all year long.
VERSE
It Fell in the City (page 5)