October 2006 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)
Practice a magic trick and find the way through a maze.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 11)
Find at least 14 differences in these pictures.
Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the boot, bowl, and other objects.
Thinking (page 18)
Ponder what you can find at a flea market.
Footprints (page 25)
Solve this puzzle.
Crafts (page 30)
Build a blimp, make and play a bouncing-buttons game, and design an address book.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Name five different textures around you.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Figure out this maze and answer some questions.
FICTION
Monster Me (page 12)
This kid gets a Halloween-costume surprise.
Fox Makes Lunch (page 26)
Fox changes his plans as he whips up a surprise for Bear.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
Riddles (page 34)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
The Timbertoes (page 35)
The family and the animals get ready for winter.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about jealousy and friends who talk in class.
REBUS
A Surprise for Maya (page 19)
A family works together to create this gift.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 24)
Learn how to build a strong brick wall and find out how a cast helps a bone heal.
Dino Days (page 24)
"How small was T. rex's brain?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
Lighter Than Air (page 36)
See how a blimp works.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 10)
Goofus waits until he's told to clean his room; Gallant keeps his room neat.
VERSE
What If . . . (page 5)
Tails (page 15)