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🫢 pssst… highlights magazine still exists

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read

Hey there Reader,

So last week I asked what your favorite magazine was as a kid — and while none of you hit reply (aww 😘), I’m going to go ahead and assume the collective answer was: Highlights.

Because obviously.
It had everything: stories, jokes, hidden pictures, Goofus and Gallant being absolute icons of moral development.

I'm not gonna lie. I lived for the mailman delivering those issues.

So if you need help getting your kid to put down their device and read, it's time to introduce Highlights into their lives.

They still make it. It’s still fun. It’s screen-free. And it’s actually really affordable.👉

If you never had Highlights as a kid, you’re missing out. Get it for your kids – they won’t know you’re secretly trying to catch up on the biggest hit of the ‘70s.

Cheers,

Justine

What’s New at Teacher Justine:

  • I’m taking the month of July off of tutoring to walk in the footsteps of my ancestors in Northern Italy.
  • I'm using ThinkSRSD to tutor kids in structured writing after they complete EBLI
  • I got a new email address to match my website domain: justine@teacherjustine.com
  • I opened a store on TPT and created two speech-to-print aligned activities
  • On the blog, I’m talking about how to create spelling lists after EBLI instruction.

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