Highlights® May 2011 Teachers' 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 Own Pages (page 28)
  • Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 34)
  • Riddles (page 38)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

NONFICTION

  • The Mysterious Dark Day (page 10)
    History, advanced
  • My Sci (page 16)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • How Do You Measure Up? (page 22)
    Science, moderate
  • Dazzling Dave Spins Delight (page 24)
    Careers, advanced
  • Nature Watch (page 35)
    Science, advanced
  • Where Do the Turtles Go? (page 36)
    Science, advanced

FICTION

  • Dinosaurs (page 5)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Ask Arizona®: Good-Times Cookies (page 6)
    Story, advanced
  • Spring Surprise (page 12)
    Story, moderate
  • I Wish I Knew (page 15)
    Poetry, moderate
  • The Hook (page 18)
    Story, advanced
  • Shoebox (page 21)
    Rebus, early, moderate
  • The Timbertoes® (page 27)
    Story, moderate
  • Fancy-Talking Tiger (page 30)
    Story, advanced
  • Dad’s Birthday Gift (page 40)
    Story, moderate

MORE FUN WITH A PURPOSE®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
  • Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
  • Thinking (page 20)
  • Crafts (page 32)
  • BrainPlay (page 39)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)
  • What's Wrong?™ (Back cover)