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 some ideas for library fun and solve a puzzle.

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

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the pliers, apple, and other objects.

BrainPlay (page 39)
Name a fruit that is juicy. Name one that is not.

HUMOR
The Timbertoes® (page 35)
The family sees that a storm did some damage, but left a gift — a rainbow.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Your Own Pages (page 26)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

REBUS
Birthday Surprise (page 11)
Daniel finds the best present for the birthday rabbit.

Beginning Readers

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Get some ideas for library fun and solve a puzzle.

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

Square Deal (page 6)
Find the perfect square.

Calling Card Crack-Ups (page 10)
Match the make-believe companies with their silly slogans.

Seed Scramble (page 10)
Figure out which plants grew from which seeds.

Hidden Pictures (page 14)
Find the pliers, apple, and other objects.

Crafts (page 20)
Design School Supply Holders, make and play a Bounce-and-Catch Game, and create some Magnificent Mosaics.

Thinking (page 28)
Ponder what's happening at this beach.

BrainPlay (page 39)
Tell something that you learned in the past year.

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Help Little Red Riding Hood figure out where to put store signs on Fairy Tale Lane.

FICTION
When Grandma Comes (page 24)
A family has lots of fun when Grandma visits.

How Low Can You Go? (page 30)
After a price competition, Possum and Raccoon finally decide on a reasonable price for their apples.

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

The Timbertoes® (page 35)
The family sees that a storm did some damage, but left a gift — a rainbow.

Riddles (page 38)
Kids share their favorite riddles.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 18)
Kids tell about and draw pictures of creatures they have imagined.

Your Own Pages (page 26)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about being at a new school and learning to care for a pet cockatoo.

REBUS
Birthday Surprise (page 11)
Daniel finds the best present for the birthday rabbit.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Dr. Octopus (page 12)
Dr. Jennifer Mather snorkels in search of octopuses.

My Sci (page 22)
Find out why people need to exercise every day, learn about Tyrannosaurus rex, and see the Mars Science Laboratory.

VALUES
Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
Goofus leaves his bicycle in the way; Gallant puts his bicycle out of the way.

The Bear Family (page 25)
The cubs find ways to reuse items instead of disposing of them.

VERSE
Uncles (page 5)

Whoppers (page 10)

Independent Readers

ACTIVITIES
Fun This Month (page 2)
Get some ideas for library fun and solve a puzzle.

Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
Find the pliers, apple, and other objects.

Crafts (page 20)
Design School Supply Holders, make and play a Bounce-and-Catch Game, and create some Magnificent Mosaics.

Thinking (page 28)
Ponder what's happening at this beach.

BrainPlay (page 39)
Name four emotions and a time when you have felt each of them.

Picture Puzzler (page 43)
Help Little Red Riding Hood figure out where to put store signs on Fairy Tale Lane.

ARTS
Dreams and Musical Feet (page 32)
S.B. Bhagyasree, a 10-year-old dancer, studies the art of Bharata natyam.

FICTION
Ask Arizona (page 8)
Arizona learns to stay out of disagreements between friends.

The Dog and the Bone (page 15)
Find out what happens in this retelling of an Aesop's Fable.

My Vacation on Earth (page 16)
Despite some troubles, Aydan decides that his family had a pretty good vacation.

Fair and Square (page 40)
Hannah, who feels as if she cheated, gives her prize to another bicyclist.

READERS' CONTRIBUTIONS
Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 18)
Kids tell about and draw pictures of creatures they have imagined.

Your Own Pages (page 26)
Readers see drawings and poems from their peers all over the world.

Dear Highlights (page 42)
The editors deal with readers' concerns about being at a new school and learning to care for a pet cockatoo.

SCIENCE AND NATURE
Hearing Sounds Through the Ground (page 19)
Find out what scientists learned when they studied elephant rumbles.

My Sci (page 22)
Find out why people need to exercise every day, learn about Tyrannosaurus rex, and see the Mars Science Laboratory.

Nature Watch (page 34)
Learn about the downy woodpecker, the smallest woodpecker in North America.

SPORTS
No Dummy (page 36)
Find out about William Hoy, a deaf man who was one of the best baseball players in the history of the Major Leagues.

VALUES
Gallant Kids (page 7)
Zach Bonner has been helping people since he was six years old.

WORLD CULTURES
Wake Up! (page 29)
On the Jewish New Year, an ancient horn calls out for a hopeful future.