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.

Prereaders

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Create a comic strip and solve a maze.

Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the glove, ring, and other objects.

BrainPlay (page 39)
How is a cookie like a plate?

HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 29)
Spot saves the day when Tommy loses his hat.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

REBUS
Perfectly Purple (page 19)

Beginning Readers

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Create a comic strip and solve a maze.

Find the Pictures (page 2)
Look for the 10 pictures hidden throughout the issue.

All Together Now (page 8)
Solve this word puzzle.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the glove, ring, and other objects.

Thinking (page 24)
Ponder what happened to create the need for repair in this scene.

Marty's Mixed-Up Trip (page 28)
Rearrange the photos to put them in the order in which they were taken.

States and Stats (page 28)
Use the clues to learn about four cousins.

Crafts (page 30)
Make a Flying-Fish Game, design a Shovel Frame, and create a Diving-Ring Mobile.

BrainPlay (page 39)
Would you rather be a turtle or a fish? Why?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find what each row of windows in the red building has in common. Then find a variety of things throughout the scene.

FICTION
Am I a Frog Yet? (page 22)
Rory's hard work pays off in swimming class.

What's a Kloosh? (page 36)
Klooshmaker finally finds the origin of his name.

HUMOR
Jokes (page 15)
Readers relate the best jokes they have heard.

The Timbertoes® (page 29)
Spot saves the day when Tommy loses his hat.

Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

NONFICTION
A Pickle of a Prize (page 12)
Read about the dog who found the stolen World Cup Trophy.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Animal Games (page 34)
Kids tell which animals and games they believe would be a perfect fit.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about asking people to join a club and feeling shy about swimming lessons.

REBUS
Perfectly Purple (page 19)
A purple-loving girl finds a way to "make" her goldfish purple.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Corner (page 18)
Discover where a clam gets its shell.

Dino Days (page 18)
"What kinds of tools do you use to dig up dinosaur bones?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus shares rumors about others; Gallant doesn't gossip.

The Bear Family (page 25))
The cubs find ways to reuse items instead of disposing of them.

VERSE
The Sidewalk Racer; or, On the Skateboard (page 5)

S Is for Snake (page 15)

Independent Readers

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Create a comic strip and solve a maze.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the glove, ring, and other objects.

Thinking (page 24)
Ponder what happened to create the need for repair in this scene.

Crafts (page 30)
Make a Flying-Fish Game, design a Shovel Frame, and create a Diving-Ring Mobile.

BrainPlay (page 39)
If there were no calendars, how could people explain when things had happened or were going to happen?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find what each row of windows in the red building has in common. Then find a variety of things throughout the scene.

CAREERS
It's Raining Pistachios! (page 40)
Find out how this family's pistachio farm grew from some spindly sticks.

FICTION
The Right Note (page 10)
Lana's violin playing helps find a missing cat.

Ask Arizona: How to Become Un-bored (page 16)
Arizona overcomes boredom.

Benjamin and the Paper Trail (page 32)
This boy shows Sheriff Leon how he and his Oma saved the money to pay off the mortgage.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 20)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Animal Games (page 34)
Kids tell which animals and games they believe would be a perfect fit.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about asking people to join a club and feeling shy about swimming lessons.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Science Letters (page 9)
Find out if your heart is really burning when you have "heartburn."

Science Corner (page 18)
Discover where a clam gets its shell.

Dino Days (page 18)
"What kinds of tools do you use to dig up dinosaur bones?" Dino Don Lessem answers this question.

What Are the Birds Eating? (page 26)
Learn about sanderlings that migrate 6,000 miles and what they eat along the way.

WHAT A PRO KNOWS
Gregory E. Chamitoff: Living in Space (page 6)
Learn about this astronaut's experience on board the International Space Station.