Highlights® September 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.

  • Your Own Stories (page 7)
  • Jokes (page 10)
  • Your Own Pages (page 34)
  • Riddles (page 39)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

NONFICTION

  • Sharing a Lake with Hippos (page 12)
    World Cultures, moderate
  • Amy Graves: A Passion for Penguins (page 16)
    Careers, advanced
  • Nature Watch (page 18)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • How Humpbacks Go Fishing (page 26)
    Science, advanced
  • My Sci (page 30)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • Astronaut Answers Kids' Questions from Space (page 36)
    Science, advanced

FICTION

  • Windshield Wiper (page 5)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Ask Arizona®: When One Friend Makes the Team (page 8)
    Story, advanced
  • Summer Day (page 10)
    Poetry, moderate
  • This Cat Likes to Travel (page 19)
    Rebus, early
  • Seconds from Winning (page 22)
    Story, advanced
  • The Timbertoes® (page 25)
    Story, early
  • Rusty's Nap (page 32)
    Story, moderate
  • My Stinky Planet-Saving! Summer Vacation (page 40)
    Story, advanced

MORE FUN WITH A PURPOSE®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
  • Thinking (page 11)
  • Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
  • Crafts (page 20)
  • BrainPlay (page 38)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)
  • What's Wrong?™ (Back cover)