Author : Judith Wynn Halsted
Publisher : Great Potential Press, Inc.
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 0910707960
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.
Author : Judith Wynn Halsted
Publisher : Great Potential Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Gifted children
ISBN :
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.
Author : James T. Webb
Publisher : Gifted Unlimited
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Education
ISBN :
This book seeks to increase the awareness by parents, teachers, and clinicians of the often overlooked unique emotional needs of gifted children.
Author : Ezra Werb
Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1631983202
A lively read from a working teacher offers practical engagement strategies for students with attention challenges If learning is a motor, student engagement is the key. But when teaching students with ADHD and other attention challenges, sometimes even the most finely tuned classroom can sputter. Teach for Attention! is your tool belt of teaching strategies for students with ADHD, low self-confidence, distraction, and other attention challenges. Dozens of true classroom stories show the strategies in action. It’s all about making simple fixes so you can reach every student without changing your approach or revamping your curriculum. Carry these ideas with you like tools on a belt—the right one will be there when you need it!
Author : Susan K. Johnsen
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1593630034
Identifying Gifted Students: A Practical Guide is designed for practicing professionals such as teachers, counselors, psychologists, and administrators who must make decisions daily about identifying and serving gifted and talented students. This book offers up-to-date information for building an effective, defensible identification process.
Author : Thomas P. Hebert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 39,44 MB
Release : 2022-02-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 1000493229
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.
Author : Vicki Caruana
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,10 MB
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475847114
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.
Author : James T. Webb
Publisher : Great Potential Press, Inc.
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0910707790
Practical guidance in key areas of concern for parents, such as peer relations, siblings, motivation and underachievement, discipline, intensity and stress, depression, education planning, and finding professional help.
Author : Susan K. Johnsen
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Gifted children
ISBN : 1593631650
For the first time, the Gifted Child Today Reader series brings together the best articles published in Gifted Child Today, the nation's most popular gifted education journal. Each book in this series is filled with exciting and practical classroom ideas, useful summaries of research findings, discussions of identification and classroom management, and informed opinions about educating gifted kids. Anyone involved in education will benefit from the practical, research-based ideas this unique series has to offer. Students who are gifted in English and language arts are able to discern the authors' purpose, anticipate layers of meaning, and use prior knowledge to make connections between the present text and the previous experiences, a complicated feat for any young child. "Language Arts for Gifted Students" offers information on the characteristics and identification of students who are gifted in English and language arts; how to develop differentiated curricula that include multicultural components; and specific teaching strategies, such as integrating drama with literature, using storytelling activities, and developing a writers' workshop.
Author : Barbara Kerr
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1113 pages
File Size : 38,89 MB
Release : 2009-06-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1412949718
The three-volume Encyclopedia of Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent presents state-of-the-art research and ready-to-use facts from the fields of education, psychology, sociology, and the arts.
