Highlights® October 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.

  • You Helped the Cartoonists! (page 8)
  • Jokes (page 15)
  • Tongue Twisters (page 18)
  • Your Own Pages (page 34)
  • Riddles (page 38)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

NONFICTION

  • Gallant Kids (page 7)
    Profile, advanced
  • Building Holy Huts (page 10)
    World Cultures, moderate
  • Ataka: A Young Desert Girl (page 22)
    World Cultures, advanced
  • My Sci (page 28)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • Gargling Gargoyles (page 40)
    History, advanced

FICTION

  • Pumpkin Moon (page 5)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Apple Waiting (page 9)
    Rebus, early
  • Rock Walk (page 15)
    Poetry, moderate
  • How I Became a Halloween Hero (page 16)
    Story, advanced
  • The Bear Family (page 19)
    Story, early
  • Horse and Fly (page 20)
    Story, moderate
  • The Timbertoes® (page 25)
    Story, early
  • Ask Arizona®: Last-Minute and Mismatched (page 26)
    Story, advanced
  • Finders Keepers (page 30)
    Story, moderate
  • Stitching the Rip in the Sky (page 36)
    Story, advanced

MORE FUN WITH A PURPOSE®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
  • Thinking (page 13)
  • Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
  • Crafts (page 32)
  • BrainPlay (page 39)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)
  • What's Wrong?™ (Back cover)