Highlights® January 2011 Parent/Teacher Guide

Looking for opportunities to help your students learn with Highlights? This monthly guide to the magazine will help you find the stories and activities that suit your students' reading level and will help to supplement your classroom curriculum.

Children's Contributions

Each issue of Highlights features writings and drawings from children. While we cannot publish every submission, the staff of Highlights writes personal responses to every letter.

  • Jokes (page 15)
  • Your Parade Floats (page 20)
  • Your Own Pages (page 34)
  • Riddles (page 38)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

Nonfiction

  • What a Pro Knows: Crayon Artist (page 12)
    Careers, advanced
  • Flying with a Tiger (page 16)
    Science, advanced
  • My Sci (page 26)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • Nature Watch (page 32)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • Acorn by Acorn (page 40)
    Science, moderate

Fiction

  • Nothing but Net (page 5)
    Poetry, advanced
  • Ask Arizona®: Your Future: Open Wide! (page 8)
    Story, advanced
  • The Timbertoes® (page 11)
    Story, moderate
  • Labrador Winter (page 15)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Teeter-Totter (page 19)
    Story, moderate
  • Stop the Hungry Giant Fish! (page 22)
    Legend, advanced
  • Real Treasure (page 28)
    Story, moderate
  • Discovering Home (page 33)
    Rebus, early
  • Crickets (Crash!) and a Birthday Bash (page 36)
    Story, advanced

More Fun with a Purpose®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
  • Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
  • What's Wrong?™ (Back cover)
  • Crafts (page 30)
  • Thinking (page 25)
  • BrainPlay (page 39)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)