Highlights® November 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 creative work from children. While we cannot publish every submission, the staff of Highlights writes personal responses to every letter.

  • Tongue Twisters (page 6)
  • Jokes (page 15)
  • Your Own Pages (page 26)
  • Your Favorite Books (page 30)
  • Riddles (page 38)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

NONFICTION

  • Are You a Bit of a Bully? (page 7)
    Quiz, moderate
  • My Sci (page 10)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • The Alligator's Super Sense (page 22)
    Science, advanced
  • What a Pro Knows: "Inventing" Apples (page 32)
    Careers, advanced
  • Nature Watch (page 35)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • Leonardo's Mysterious Lady (page 40)
    Arts, advanced

FICTION

  • from Thanksgiving Day (page 5)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Troll and Dragon (page 8)
    Story, advanced
  • The Turkey Hunt (page 12)
    Story, moderate
  • My Sister's Tutu (page 15)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Ask Arizona®: Operation Pepperoni Pizza (page 16)
    Story, advanced
  • The Timbertoes® (page 19)
    Story, early
  • Pocket Riddle (page 25)
    Rebus, early
  • Quarterback Wanted (page 28)
    Story, advanced
  • Mandy from Mars (page 36)
    Story, moderate

MORE FUN WITH A PURPOSE®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
  • Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
  • Crafts (page 20)
  • Thinking (page 24)
  • BrainPlay (page 39)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)
  • What's Wrong?™ (Back cover)