March 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)
Solve a Jump-Rope Jumble puzzle, and find out where these hoodoos rock formations are found.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Sock Sack (page 8)
Solve this puzzle.
Rhyming Words (page 8)
Think of a pair of rhyming words that match each definition.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the pencil, heart, and other objects.
Thinking (page 19)
See what's happening in this Statue of Liberty scene.
Draw it! (page 28)
Create a curved design made entirely out of straight lines.
Crafts (page 30)
Make and carry a ladybug pouch, design and use a mini greenhouse, and create and play a naming game.
Stung Again! (page 35)
Put together a card game for one person.
Professor Clutter's Code (page 38)
Decipher this puzzle.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Name five things that feel bumpy.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Play the game and solve a puzzle on this page.
FICTION
Goose Says Good-Bye (page 22)
This goose finally finds a friend who understands what migration is.
Digger and Dander (page 32)
These friends come up with a plan to earn money.
HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 12)
Pa has a clever idea to make it easier for the pets to get through the door.
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your School Stories (page 20)
Students share some memories from school.
Your Own Pages (page 26)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about daydreaming and how to keep from missing a sibling who is going to college.
REBUS
Puddle Play (page 9)
Find out what Jacob forgets when he goes outside to play in the puddles.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 34)
Learn why lions have manes, and discover what kind of animal built a big mound.
Dino Days (page 34)
"How big was a raptor?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus leaves the lights on, wasting electricity; Gallant turns off the lights when he leaves a room.
The Bear Family (page 29)
Woozy figures out how to help a friend.
VERSE
I Wouldn't (page 5)
No Nap! (page 15)
WORLD CULTURES
Obento (page 36)
Discover what's fun about lunchtime in Japan.