July 2009 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)
Celebrate Parents' Day, and learn the "why" behind the Fourth of July.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the muffin, trowel, and other objects.
Thinking (page 25)
Ponder what's happening at this neighborhood celebration.
Crafts (page 32)
Create and use a megaphone, design a treasure jar, and make and play a cereal-box soccer game.
BrainPlay (page 39)
How would you improve a ballpoint pen?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Use the clues to trace a path from start to finish.
ARTS
Chris Hart: Tips from a Cartoonist (page 36)
This professional artist started drawing when he was a kid.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 16)
Ollie, Arizona, and the twins try to form a band.
The Troll Bridge (page 26)
Lisa and Howie help a displaced troll.
The Most Important Night of My Life So Far (page 40)
Steve gets to witness man's first steps on the Moon.
HISTORY
Waking Up a President! (page 12)
Find out about the historic night when U.S. Vice President Calvin Coolidge became president.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 28)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about reminding people to stop littering and feeling left out after a new baby is born.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Nature Watch (page 11)
Learn about kestrels that live throughout the United States and much of Canada.
The Sea Turtle's Built-In Compass (page 20)
Find out how loggerhead sea turtles can always find their way home.
Science Corner (page 24)
Discover what Saturn's rings are made of, and collect tree textures.
Dino Days (page 24)
"Have all the dinosaur bones already been found?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Science Letters (page 34)
Learn why the Moon seems to follow you when you move.
SPORTS
Disc-Dog Champ (page 6)
This border collie is an amazing athlete.
Número Uno (page 30)
Mexico's Lorena Ochoa has energized the world of golf.