October 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)
Learn a new song and solve a puzzle.
Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.
Thinking (page 6)
Ponder what's happening in this parade scene.
Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the nail, shoe, and other objects.
Peanut-Butter Balls (page 32)
Try this recipe.
Check . . . and Double Check (page 33)
Find 13 differences in the two pictures.
Crafts (page 34)
Create festive finger clappers, "sew" your own scarecrow, and make and play two games.
BrainPlay (page 39)
Describe some things you would see if you were an octopus.
Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find 10 things that look exactly alike in two different pictures.
FICTION
The Halloween Copycat (page 22)
Squirrel gets frustrated when Dog copies her decorations. But then they work together.
The Fastest Kid on Albert Street (page 36)
These kids realize that they have different talents.
HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.
The Timbertoes® (page 21)
Spot saves the day when Tommy and Mabel put on a play.
Riddles (page 32)
Kids share their favorite riddles.
READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
You Illustrated the Poem! (page 10)
Kids share their drawings.
Your Own Pages (page 28)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.
Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers concerns about scoring in basketball and a young sister who destroys things.
REBUS
Clouds (page 13)
This boy sees pictures in the clouds.
SCIENCE AND NATURE
Baby Dolphins in Shark Bay (page 16)
Discover how mother dolphins help their babies survive.
Science Corner (page 38)
See what made designs on a tree and discover why electrical cords are covered with plastic.
Dino Days (page 38)
"Could a small T. rex defeat a grown-up Spinosaurus in a fight?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.
VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 24)
Goofus makes noise when others are doing schoolwork. Gallant sits quietly while others are still working.
VERSE
Theme in Yellow (page 5)
Spare Change (page 15)