Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers
Challenge your gifted reader! Gifted children grow socially, emotionally, and intellectually from reading good books. This resource can help make that happen, by offering parents and teachers an annotated K-12 reading list with summaries of nearly 300 titles for bright students. Recommended books will both challenge and stimulate young minds. Cross-indexed by author, title, topic, and reading level, Halsted also includes questions for each book to promote discussion and understanding, in...
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Challenge your gifted reader! Gifted children grow socially, emotionally, and intellectually from reading good books. This resource can help make that happen, by offering parents and teachers an annotated K-12 reading list with summaries of nearly 300 titles for bright students. Recommended books will both challenge and stimulate young minds. Cross-indexed by author, title, topic, and reading level, Halsted also includes questions for each book to promote discussion and understanding, in addition to the short book summaries.OutlookThis book is a rich resource to keep gifted kids excited about reading...Best of all is an annotated bibliography of nearly 300 books for High Ability Learner's from preschool through grade 12!
PrefaceIntroductionPart I: The ChildrenChapter 1. The Heart of the Child: Emotional DevelopmentChapter 2. The Mind of the Child: Intellectual DevelopmentPart II: The ProcessChapter 3. Reading GuidanceChapter 4. Emotional Development through BooksChapter 5: Intellectual Development through BooksPart III: The BooksChapter 6. Choosing Books that ChallengeChapter 7. All the Wealth: Children's LiteratureChapter 8. Annotated BibliographySubject IndexIndex of CategoriesIndex of AuthorsIndex of TitlesAbout the Author
\ A number of great resources for locating quality children's literature.\ \ \ \ \ Book ReportA great resource for teachers and librarians, but it's written for any adult who works with bright children...recommended.\ \ \ Fearless ReviewsYou will find this warm book to be a lovely resource.\ \ \ \ \ OutlookThis book is a rich resource to keep gifted kids excited about reading...Best of all is an annotated bibliography of nearly 300 books for High Ability Learner's from preschool through grade 12!\ \
