Highlighting text in Pages for ipad?

Is it coming or did I just waste 10 bucks? I need to be able to highlight corrections on students assignments... Changing font colors is used for one type of correction, and highlighting is for another type of grammatical correction.

Since no one seems to be jumping in with any suggestions here, I am going to make a few comments.
First, I don't have Pages for iOS, because I only have an iPod Touch, and I wouldn't want to try editing a Page document on that. So I can't test anything.
Since Pages for Mac supports highlighting as a character style, it is quite possible that Pages for iOS also supports it, but lacks a way to create it. If that is the case, you can create a document on a Mac using the highlighting styles you want, import that document to your iPad, and copy the style from that document to apply to the corrections in the student assignments.

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As Ed MacMahon once said (before your time?) re Pages 5 Character Fill Color: "You are correct, sir!!"
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