R&L Education
Pages: 176
Trim: 6¾ x 9
978-1-57886-185-9 • Paperback • December 2004 • $53.00 • (£41.00)
Rosemary Callard-Szulgit, EdD is an adjunct lecturer at the State University of New York, College at Brockport, where her courses on Teaching the Gifted K-12, Teaching Writing K-12, and Teaching Reading K-12, have become very popular and highly respected.
Dr. Callard-Szulgit has a staff development consulting business, Partners for Excellence (www.partners-for-excellence.com), in Rochester, NY and Phoenix, AZ. She is the former facilitator for Gifted and Talented, K-8, in the Webster Central School District, a suburb of Rochester, NY and she continues to have articles published dealing with the education of gifted children.
Part 1 Preface
2 Introduction
Chapter 3 1. Accelerated Reader
Chapter 4 2. Angels in Action
Chapter 5 3. Brainstorming
Chapter 6 4. Bringing Shakespeare's Meter Alive
Chapter 7 5. The Callard-Szulgit Star Excellence
Chapter 8 6. Cloze
Chapter 9 7. Creative Problem Solving (CPS)
Chapter 10 8. Diversity of Life
Chapter 11 9. Finding Forrester
Chapter 12 10. Fostering Brilliance
Chapter 13 11. Four Popular Questions with Commonsense Solutions
Chapter 14 12. Future Problem-Solving Program
Chapter 15 13. Hearing the Song without Right or Wrong
Chapter 16 14. I Am Poems
Chapter 17 15. The International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Program
Chapter 18 16. Let's Get Real: National Academic Competition
Chapter 19 17. Little Man Tate
Chapter 20 18. Lunch Bunch
Chapter 21 19. Math Question of the Day, or "MQ of D"
Chapter 22 20. Mindbenders
Chapter 23 21. Modifying a Thesis: Watching One Idea Evolve into Something Else
Chapter 24 22. National Geographic Bee
Chapter 25 23. Newbery and Caldecott Award-Winning Books
Chapter 26 24. Place-Value Games
Chapter 27 25. The President's Fitness Challenge
Chapter 28 26. Project Success Enrichment
Chapter 29 27. Reading Counts: Book Talk
Chapter 30 28. School-Related Studies (SRS)
Chapter 31 29. Scripps National Spelling Bee
Chapter 32 30. Speak to Me about Being Gifted...
Chapter 33 31. SQ3R
Chapter 34 32. The Stock Market Game
Chapter 35 33. Survivor in English 7
Chapter 36 34. Tiny Worlds
Chapter 37 35. Web Quests and the Gifted
Chapter 38 Appendix A: Professional Associations and Advocacy Groups
Chapter 39 Appendix B: Contests
Chapter 40 Appendix C: Grants and Awards
Chapter 41 References and Recommended Reading
Chapter 42 About the Author
Callard-Szulgit provides teachers with activities for children to pursue when they have finished assigned work or need some relief from tedium. Many of these activities could also be organized at home by parents. Recommended.
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