Gifted Books Gifted Readers: Literature Activities to Excite Young Minds

About this book

Stretch young minds to creative and productive thought with some of the best literature currently available. Polette shows you how to promote critical thinking decision making and problem solving through building excitement for the reading experience and increasing students active participation in learning. She offers suggestions for creative reproduction elaboration rearrangements and transformations of text to help children connect reading content to their own experiences. A wonderful resource for elementary and middle school teachers of the gifted these books and activities can be used in any classroom. Also an important read for college-level courses on curriculum for the gifted and childrens literature.