May 2007 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 some riddles, and see five ways to put fun into fitness.
Make It for Mom! (page 7)
Create these floral gifts.
Thinking (page 11)
Ponder what's happening on this movie set.
Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the tack, mug, and other objects.
Crafts (page 20)
Make and wear a music maker, design a decoration that will smile back, and create and play "1, 2, 3, Launch!"
BrainPlay (page 40)
Why don't all sunsets look the same?
ADVENTURE
24 Hours Before the Mast (page 30)
These fifth-graders found out what it would have been like to be a sailor on a tall ship.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 16)
Arizona and the twins solve their "no mail" blues.
Run-Out Rick (page 26)
Rick discovers that sometimes it's good to run out of something.
Sylvia, Tree Dancer (page 38)
This girl figures out how to get out of a precarious situation while climbing.
Stone Soup (page 41)
Enjoy a Swedish folktale.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 19)
Kids design imaginary creatures.
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 being afraid of the dark and having a bossy friend.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Nakai's Pangolin (page 8)
A boy in Zimbabwe spots this rare creature.
Science Corner (page 10)
Learn how concrete is made.
Dino Days (page 10)
"How many relatives did Triceratops have?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Science Letters (page 25)
"How do turtles get into their shells?" Find the answer to this and other questions.
Nature Watch (page 32)
Learn about fireflies.