Good books are often good friends. Because gifted readers often intensely identify with characters, good books can provide bridges to new insights and better communication of feelings, values, and decision making, while also fostering intellectual and creative development. Now in its third edition, Some of My Best Friends Are Books describes: Intellectual and emotional needs
Good books are often good friends. Because gifted readers often intensely identify with characters, good books can provide bridges to new insights and better communication of feelings, values, and decision making, while also fostering intellectual and creative development. Now in its third edition, Some of My Best Friends Are Books describes: Intellectual and emotional needs of children of high ability; Typical and advanced reading patterns for grades K-12; How parents and teachers can give reading guidance and discuss books with young readers; A well-indexed annotated bibliography of more than 300 books for readers of all ages, carefully selected to promote intellectual and emotional development; Books that deal with themes such as Achievement, Aloneness, Arrogance, Developing Imagination, Intensity, Introversion, Perfectionism, Relationships with Others, Sensitivity, and Resiliency; and An index with suggested titles for each theme and the page numbers for short summaries of these titles
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Robust resource! This book has a wealth of information for educators of gifted students and school librarians (as well as public librarians). Though the first two parts are only 74 pages, there is a lot of condensed and easily digestible information and background knowledge in these portions. As a school librarian, I was a bit afraid that these two portions would outweigh the bibliography portion, but I was wrong. The information provided is in brief parts that really hits the important details without going…
Great tool for parents and educators Summer is here. Ugh, what do I get my smart kid to read so he will ACTUALLY enjoy reading something that isn’t practicallly a picture book? Oh – here’s a list, by age and reading level, and gender tendency. Perfect!
Great I was really just wanting the list of books in the latter chapters. BUT, I read it. Shocking, I know! I think this is a valuable book for any parent, gifted child or not. Why? Because it encourages parents, or any supportive adult, to help their child dig deeper and develop on a level that isn’t necessarily required in the classroom setting. The book demonstrates appropriate ways to ask questions, encourage emotional and intellectual growth, build groups, and touches on bibliotherapy as well…