November 2006 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 a puzzle and think of ways to give thanks for the harvest.
Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the carrot, bell, and other objects.
Thinking (page 20)
Ponder what you can see and do in a museum.
Crafts (page 28)
Design a dragon to guard your treasure, and make a turkey table decoration.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 36)
Find at least 13 differences in these pictures.
BrainPlay (page 40)
Tell some things that would be different if gravity stopped working.
FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 8)
Arizona figures out a way to get her parents to consider a request.
First Time Down (page 18)
Peter faces a problem with his diving partner.
Who Stole Grandma's Pie? (page 38)
Sammy solves a mystery.
HISTORY
Aleck's Amazing Talking Dog (page 10)
Find out how Alexander Graham Bell trained his dog.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 32)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 37)
Kids share their ideas and drawings.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about forgetting to take homework home and having two friends who talk at the same time.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Why Catch Bats? (page 12)
Learn why scientists catch bats in order to help protect them.
Science Letters (page 25)
"If clouds are made of water, why don't they evaporate?" Senior Science Editor Jack Myers, Ph.D., answers this question.
Science Corner (page 30)
Do a melting-ice experiment, and find out how bees stay warm in the winter.
Dino Days (page 30)
"Did any dinosaurs have webbed feet?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VERSE
A Round of Thanks (page 5)
WORLD CULTURES
A Day to Remember Family (page 26)
Mexican families hold a special annual celebration to honor loved ones who have died.