Guiding Gifted Readers: From Preschool Through High School : a Handbook for Parents, Teachers, Counselors, and LibrariansSchool 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. |
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Chapter | 1 |
How Books Can Help | 22 |
Chapter Three Reading Patterns | 33 |
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