January 2010 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)
Navigate a maze, and get some tips to "spark a story."
Time Capsule in Your Closet (page 8)
Write, draw, and collect items in a box to be opened in 2020. It will remind you of what life was like in 2010.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the hat, fork, and other objects.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 20)
Find 12 differences in these pictures.
Crafts (page 26)
Make a Little Sheep Bank, create and play a Coil Maze Game, and design some Walnut Critters.
Thinking (page 30)
Ponder what's happening at this pet shelter.
Play Tubular Tic-Tac-Toe (page 31)
This game has 12 ways to win and no ways to tie.
BrainPlay (page 41)
What are some things people can buy that they might choose to make instead?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Look for 27 "Fishy Finds."
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 16)
Arizona realizes that little acts of kindness can make a big difference in the world.
Old Dog, New Tricks (page 32)
Duke is one intelligent dog.
Small-Town Volleyball (page 38)
Becca finds that her new teammates are supportive even when she makes a mistake.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 36)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about wanting a pet and getting organized.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
How to Find a Tortoise Nest (page 10)
See how scientists find and study baby turtles.
Science Letters (page 20)
Discover why owls like darkness better than light.
Science Corner (page 24)
Make some bubble solution, and learn how a compass works.
Dino Days (page 24)
"Have you ever found a Triceratops horn?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Nature Watch (page 34)
Learn about the scrub jay, a bird that lives in western North America and parts of Florida.
VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 13)
Grace and Lilly Bithell encouraged neighbors to recycle.