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Identifying and Enhancing the Strengths of Gifted Learners, K-8 - Book Cover Look Inside

Identifying and Enhancing the Strengths of Gifted Learners, K-8

Easy-to-Use Activities and Lessons

Challenge gifted students across the curriculum!

Written by a gifted and talented specialist, this book helps K–8 teachers identify areas of strength and weakness in gifted learners and provides hundreds of challenging activities to promote their academic and social development. Organized by skills, each chapter begins with analysis activities and follows up with enhancement activities that extend and enrich the content of the everyday curriculum. Teachers can select and implement any number of appropriate learning experiences to improve students' skills in:

  • Reading, writing, and oral communication
  • Creative and critical thinking
  • Interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence
  • Mathematics and visual/spatial awareness

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Identifying and Enhancing the Strengths of Gifted Learners, K-8 - Book Cover Look Inside
Product Details
  • Grade Level: K-8
  • ISBN: 9781412942539
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2007
  • Page Count: 136
  • Publication date: April 24, 2007
Price: $39.95
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Description

Description

"The projects are teacher tested and the ideas presented are challenging, creative, and fun. The author is very experienced and uses that experience to give proven and useful activities, evaluative tools, and rubrics for the gifted."
—Ken Klopack, Art & Gifted Education Consultant
Chicago Public Schools, IL

"The activities are wonderful—clearly explained, easy to administer, and entertaining."
—Frank Buck, Principal
Graham School, Talladega, AL

Challenge gifted students across the curriculum!

Educators can identify children's strengths early on and gain insight into each student's unique abilities by using the numerous ideas and informal assessments in this exciting guide. Gifted and talented specialist Ann Maccagnano offers K–8 teachers challenging activities and engaging lessons to develop and nurture gifted learners' talents.

Organized by skills, each chapter begins with analysis activities to immediately and informally assess students' current skill development. Enhancement activities then extend and enrich the content of the everyday curriculum. Teachers can select and implement any number of appropriate learning experiences to improve students' skills in:

  • Reading, writing, and oral communication
  • Creative and critical thinking
  • Interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligence
  • Mathematics and visual/spatial awareness

Identifying and Enhancing the Strengths of Gifted Learners, K–8 is the ideal tool for educators to inspire gifted students to greater levels of academic and social success.


Key features

  • Helps K–8 teachers identify a student's areas of potential giftedness
  • Offers challenging and engaging lessons and activities
  • "Analysis Activities" to extend and enrich the everyday curriculum
Author(s)

Author(s)

Ann Maccagnano photo

Ann Maccagnano
Ann Maccagnano is a gifted and talented specialist in the Kenmore Town of Tonawanda School District in New York. A teacher of gifted students for the past 11 years, Maccagnano has a master’s degree in elementary education with a Gifted Education Extension Certificate and has received the Outstanding Undergraduate in Elementary Education (OUEE) Finalist Award.
Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

About the Author

1. Developing and Nurturing Gifted Students' Strengths

The Challenge of Challenging Curriculum

What This Book Offers

How the Book Is Organized

Using Analysis Activities

What to Do After Areas of Strength Are Identified

2. Language Arts

Analysis Activities

Enhancing Reading and Writing Skills

Enhancing Oral Communication Skills

3. Creative Thinking

Analysis Activities

Enhancing Creative-Thinking Skills

4. Critical Thinking

Analysis Activities

Enhancing Critical-Thinking Skills

5. Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Intelligence

Interpersonal Analysis Activities

Enhancing Interpersonal Skills

Intrapersonal Analysis Activities

Enhancing Intrapersonal Skills

6. Mathematics

Analysis Activities

Enhancing Mathematical Skills

7. Visual/Spatial Awareness

Analysis Activities

Enhancing Visual/Spatial Skills

8. Cross-Curricular Projects

Design Your Own Dream Room

Create a Company and an Advertisement

Design a WebQuest

Create a Slideshow Presentation

Independent Study

Create Interactive Computer Games Using Hyperlinks

Design a Piece of Artwork

All About Me Project

Create a Database

Design a Travel Brochure

Create a Squiggle Drawing

Hero Unit

The Radio Show

My Creative State

Conclusion

References

Additional Reading

Reviews

Reviews

Quote by Ken Klopack, Art & Gifted Education Consultant, Chicago Public Schools, IL: "The projects are teacher-tested and the ideas presented are challenging, creative, and fun. The author is very experienced and uses that experience to give proven and useful activities, evaluative tools, and rubrics for the gifted."
"The projects are teacher-tested and the ideas presented are challenging, creative, and fun. The author is very experienced and uses that experience to give proven and useful activities, evaluative tools, and rubrics for the gifted."
Ken Klopack, Art & Gifted Education Consultant
Chicago Public Schools, IL
Quote by Raynice Jean-Sigur, Assistant Professor, Kennesaw State University: "The ideas in this book are great! Teachers are looking for ideas to work with children with diverse strengths and talents. This book offers those ideas."
"The ideas in this book are great! Teachers are looking for ideas to work with children with diverse strengths and talents. This book offers those ideas."
Raynice Jean-Sigur, Assistant Professor
Kennesaw State University
Quote by Mary Johnson, Principal, Rabbit Creek Elementary School, Anchorage, AK: "An extensive and useful collection of easily implemented lessons and activities that teachers will use often. In particular, I appreciated the rationale for providing unique educational experiences for gifted students."
"An extensive and useful collection of easily implemented lessons and activities that teachers will use often. In particular, I appreciated the rationale for providing unique educational experiences for gifted students."
Mary Johnson, Principal
Rabbit Creek Elementary School, Anchorage, AK
Quote by Frank Buck, Curriculum Supervisor, Talladega City Schools, AL: "The activities are wonderful. They are clearly explained, easy to administer, and entertaining."
"The activities are wonderful. They are clearly explained, easy to administer, and entertaining."
Frank Buck, Curriculum Supervisor
Talladega City Schools, AL
Quote by The Bookwatch, July 2007, Midwest Book Review: "Provides teachers and student teachers with easy activities and lesson plans to be integrated into any school curriculum."
"Provides teachers and student teachers with easy activities and lesson plans to be integrated into any school curriculum."
The Bookwatch, July 2007
Midwest Book Review

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