March 2009 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)
Learn "The Star-Spangled Banner," and have a craft party.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Frog-Jumping Contest (page 6)
Solve this puzzle.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the heart, scissors, and other objects.
Thinking (page 18)
Ponder what's happening at this recycling center.
Philippine Tic-Tac-Toe (page 27)
Try tapatan, a game from the Philippines.
Crafts (page 30)
Create a spring-flower candy dish, make and play a marble golf game, and design a leprechaun "hair" planter.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 34)
Find at least 12 differences in these two pictures.
Your Best Self (page 38)
A boy helps a classmate figure out the correct answer to a question.
BrainPlay (page 39)
In what ways are you like a cat?
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Spell out each animal's home continent to take it to its shuttle.
FICTION
Mole Cleans Up (page 8)
Mole's friends find a way to help get rid of the clutter in his house.
Finding the Robin's Nest (page 32)
Andrew and Curtis finally figure out the right clue to find the nest.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 35)
Tommy and Splinter play a joke.
Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 24)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about making friends and being afraid of shots.
REBUS
Where Do Cookies Come From? (page 19)
Tina finds the answer to this question.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 26)
Try an experiment with sound, and find out why lizard's tails come off.
Dino Days (page 26)
"How were the three periods of dinosaurs (Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous) separated?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Building a Tree-Trunk Road (page 40)
Discover how dirt and logs helped a family create a path through a swamp.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
Goofus doesn't take a fire drill seriously; Gallant listens carefully and acts quickly during drills.
VERSE
"No Secret" (page 5)
"Milk" (page 15)