July 2008 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)
Solve an ice-cream puzzle and try some tongue twisters.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the broccoli, pennant, and other objects.
Take Your Fishbowl to the Beach (page 22)
Try looking at some sea creatures up close.
Crafts (page 26)
Make and play a buried-treasure game, create a baseball-bat crayon box, and design a firecracker centerpiece.
Thinking (page 29)
Ponder what's happening in this campground scene.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 34)
Find at least 20 differences in these two pictures.
Sound Bites (page 35)
Think about the sounds that can be made with food.
BrainPlay (page 39)
List some things that are easy to observe. List some that are difficult.
ADVENTURE
Making the World's Rarest Syrup (page 10)
This family learns how to make a tasty treat from the fruit of the saguaro.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 16)
Arizona and her karate class finally agree on a theme for their float.
Even If He's Green (page 24)
With her brother's help, Angie realizes that their family was built with love.
Roadrunner Rescue (page 30)
A roadrunner's speed helps save a baby prairie dog.
HISTORY
Rescuing Our Documents of Freedom (page 36)
Find out how a clerk saved the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution during the War of 1812.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Stories (page 21)
Kids share stories they wrote.
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 taking good photos and dreaming about being a professional basketball player.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
What Good Is the Big Bad Wolf? (page 6)
See how this predator helps its habitat.
Nature Watch (page 18)
Learn about snails.
Science Corner (page 20)
Find out what makes the beautiful colors of fireworks and discover why woodpeckers like dead trees.
Dino Days (page 20)
"Were there any meat eaters in Australia?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Science Letters (page 34)
Find out about the largest eagles that ever lived.