Some of My Best Friends are Books

Some of My Best Friends are Books

Author: Judith Wynn Halsted

Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0910707960

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Recommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.


Guiding Gifted Students With Engaging Books

Guiding Gifted Students With Engaging Books

Author: Thomas P. Hebert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-02-14

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13: 1000493229

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Guiding Gifted Students With Engaging Books supports teachers and counselors in facilitating book discussions designed to guide bright young people to self-understanding through high-quality literature. This exciting resource: Covers social-emotional issues in the lives of gifted students. Features examples of lessons and menus of discussion questions for successful book discussions alongside enrichment activities to extend students' learning. Includes an annotated bibliography of children's and young adult books ideal for social-emotional learning. Engaging lessons and activities support learners as they process their feelings regarding issues highlighted in the selected books and class discussion. The book examines this approach with whole classrooms, as well as with small groups of students, and features considerations for special populations of gifted students, including twice-exceptional students, culturally diverse students, and children and teens facing serious adversity in their lives.


Guiding Gifted Readers

Guiding Gifted Readers

Author: Judith Wynn Halsted

Publisher: Great Potential Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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School librarian and director of gifted programs, Halsted provides a veritable gold mine on promoting intellectual growth through guided reading. Hers is a thorough introduction to the emotional and intellectual developmental needs and reading patternsof gifted children and to current research on bibliotherapy. She outlines criteria for selecting books for the gifted and furnishes an annotated bibliography of more than 160 books organized first by grade level, then by categories that include identity, getting along with others, and developing imagination. Useful for average children as well.


Guiding the Gifted Child

Guiding the Gifted Child

Author: James T. Webb

Publisher: Gifted Unlimited

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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This book seeks to increase the awareness by parents, teachers, and clinicians of the often overlooked unique emotional needs of gifted children.


Literacy Strategies for Gifted and Accelerated Readers

Literacy Strategies for Gifted and Accelerated Readers

Author: Vicki Caruana

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-11-28

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 1475847114

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Gifted and accelerated readers are often not a part of reading instruction in a traditional or inclusive classroom. Their needs go unattended in favor of those who struggle with basic reading and foundational skills. All children should have the opportunity to grow in their knowledge and skills in literacy. This book provides teachers who have one or more gifted/accelerated or those who are "keenly interested" students in their class ways in which they can differentiate reading instruction that is equitable. Literacy Strategies for Gifted and Accelerated Readers provides educators with practical, research-based strategies and advice to address the unique needs of gifted readers. Attention to required specially designed instruction that aligns to both the content standards and the NAGC PreK-12 Gifted Programming Standards ensures that gifted readers make progress through literacy instruction. This book provides insight and expertise to general education teachers, teachers of the gifted, special education teachers, homeschool educators, professional developers, and higher education faculty.


The Gifted Teen Survival Guide

The Gifted Teen Survival Guide

Author: Judy Galbraith

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Published: 2011-08-19

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 157542567X

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Based on new surveys of nearly 1,500 gifted teens, this book is the ultimate guide to thriving in a world that doesn’t always support or understand high ability. Full of surprising facts, survey results, step-by-step strategies, inspiring teen quotes, and insightful expert essays, the guide gives readers the tools they need to appreciate their giftedness as an asset and use it to make the most of who they are. The fourth edition has been revised for a new generation of high-end learners and includes information on twice-exceptionality, emotional and social intelligence, creativity, teen brain development, managing life online, testing and standards, homeschooling, International Baccalaureate programs, college alternatives, STEM careers, cyberbullying, and other hot topics.


The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

Author: Sally Yahnke Walker

Publisher: Free Spirit Publishing

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781575421117

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Defines giftedness and discusses special quirks and problems that arise living with a gifted child, from a lack of neatness to the "too-smart mouth," and explains how parents can find the right programs and make school as rewarding as possible for gifted children.


Guiding the Gifted Reader

Guiding the Gifted Reader

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Kidsource OnLine, Inc. presents the full text of "Guiding the Gifted Reader," a paper written by Judith Wynn Halsted. Halsted discusses such topics as the characteristics of the gifted child as a reader and promoting both intellectual and emotional development through books. This article was originally published in 1994 in the National Library of Education "Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Exceptional Children (EC) Digest."


Guiding Advanced Readers in Middle School

Guiding Advanced Readers in Middle School

Author: Teresa Smith Masiello

Publisher: Great Potential PressInc

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9781935067016

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Middle school students who are advanced readers need challenge in their language arts curriculum. This book helps teachers and parents understand the characteristics and needs of gifted students, as well as ways in which to differentiate reading instruction for them. It also contains activities for four different trade books that will interest and challenge gifted middle school readers. Teachers will enjoy having many reproducible activities to choose from, including literature circles, tiered activities, graphic organizers, and higher-level thinking discussion questions.