Highlights® 2012 Welcome Issue 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 Dream Cake (page 7)
  • Jokes (page 15)
  • Creatures Nobody Has Ever Seen! (page 20)
  • Your Own Pages (page 34)
  • Riddles (page 38)
  • Dear Highlights (page 42)

NONFICTION

  • Columbus, the Traveling Bear (page 10)
    Science, advanced
  • Cooking for Presidents (page 18)
    Careers, advanced
  • Being a Yak (page 22)
    Science, poetry, moderate
  • My Sci (page 28)
    Science, moderate, advanced
  • The Lights at Night (page 36)
    Science, moderate, advanced

FICTION

  • A Baby Sardine (page 5)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Basketball Ballet (page 8)
    Story, moderate
  • Report Cards (page 13)
    Rebus, early
  • Moonlight (page 15)
    Poetry, moderate
  • Ask Arizona®: New Glasses: An All-New "Look" (page 16)
    Story, advanced
  • Bert and Mert and the Missing Pie (page 26)
    Story, advanced
  • The Timbertoes® (page 31)
    Story, early
  • Lunchtime at The Hot Pot (page 32)
    Story, moderate
  • My Brother, the Comedian (page 40)
    Story, advanced

MORE FUN WITH A PURPOSE®

  • Goofus and Gallant® (page 6)
  • Hidden Pictures® (page 14)
  • Thinking (page 21)
  • Crafts (page 24)
  • BrainPlay (page 39)
  • Picture Puzzler (page 43)
  • What's Wrong?™ (Back cover)