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)
Get ideas of ways to show your thanks and solve a puzzle.

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

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the mushroom, spoon, and other objects.

BrainPlay (page 39)
Why do markers have caps?

HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 25)
As the cold weather sets in, the Timbertoes are thankful for all they have.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 30)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

What Are Your Favorite Books? (page 35)
Kids tell about books they enjoyed.

REBUS
Best Friends (page 9)
Kelsey realizes that she has four best friends.

Beginning Readers

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Get ideas of ways to show your thanks and solve a puzzle.

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

Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the mushroom, spoon, and other objects.

Check...and Double Check (page 18)
Find at least 15 differences in these two pictures.

Color Confusion (page 18)
Solve this puzzle.

Butterscotch Haystacks (page 18)
Make this tasty treat.

Thinking (page 19)
Ponder what’s being recycled in this household scene.

Silly Shadows (page 22)
Match the hands to the shadows they make.

Crafts (page 26)
Make and play a Turkey Races game, design a Kandil, a Lantern for Divali, and create a Thanksgiving Place Mat.

How Did You Guess? (page 34)
Try this magic trick.

Rhyming Pairs (page 34)
Think of a sound-alike pair of words that fits both definitions.

BrainPlay (page 39)
What might happen if tires were oval instead of round?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find at least 25 objects in Lulu's new hairdo.

FICTION
All Saints' Day at Night (page 28)
Tomek, who is frightened at first, finds that the cemetery is beautiful during the nighttime All Saints' Day observance.

The Mystery of Pig's Missing Leaves (page 36)
Pig comes outside to finish raking her yard, but her yard is clear.

HISTORY
A Turkey at the White House! (page 6)
The Presidential pardoning of the turkey dates all the way back to President Lincoln.

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

The Timbertoes® (page 25)
As the cold weather sets in, the Timbertoes are thankful for all they have.

Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Tongue Twisters (page 8)
Try these tongue teasers submitted by readers.

Your Own Pages (page 30)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

What Are Your Favorite Books? (page 35)
Kids tell about books they enjoyed.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about leaving socks everywhere and wanting to find a way to help animals.

REBUS
Best Friends (page 9)
Kelsey realizes that she has four best friends.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
My Sci (page 12)
See the Keck Telescopes, which are on the Big Island of Hawaii, and find out why your fingers and toes wrinkle up in the bath or shower.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 8)
Goofus folds the page of a book to mark his place; Gallant marks his place with a bookmark.

VERSE
You and I (page 5)

Socked Away (page 15)

Independent Readers

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Get ideas of ways to show your thanks and solve a puzzle.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the mushroom, spoon, and other objects.

Check...and Double Check (page 18)
Find at least 15 differences in these two pictures.

Thinking (page 19)
Ponder what's being recycled in this household scene.

Silly Shadows (page 22)
Match the hands to the shadows they make.

Crafts (page 26)
Make and play a Turkey Races game, design a Kandil, a Lantern for Divali, and create a Thanksgiving Place Mat.

BrainPlay (page 39)
Can you imagine a new way to wear glasses, instead of resting them on the nose and ears?

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Find at least 25 objects in Lulu's new hairdo.

FICTION
Flag Football Fake-Outs (page 10)
Stephanie overcomes her first-game jitters and plays intramural flag football.

Ask Arizona (page 16)
Ollie and Arizona help Abuela reach her dream of snowboarding.

The Kids' Table (page 40)
James finds that there is an important place for him at the kids' table.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Tongue Twisters (page 8)
Try these tongue teasers submitted by readers.

Your Own Pages (page 30)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about leaving socks everywhere and wanting to find a way to help animals.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
My Sci (page 12)
See the Keck Telescopes, which are on the Big Island of Hawaii, and find out why your fingers and toes wrinkle up in the bath or shower.

Andrea the Elk Spotter (page 20)
Andrea Schuhmann loved helping count and study the calves in Kentucky's growing elk herd.

Nature Watch (page 24)
Learn about chickadees, many kinds of which live in North America.

SPORTS
Sliding into the Future (page 32)
After Kip St. Germaine lost the use of his legs, he fell in love with ice hockey all over again.