Margaret Stevens

Challenging the Gifted Child: An Open Approach to Working with Advanced Young Readers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book outlines an approach for encouraging able children to focus their active minds in a productive way and discover the joy of reading. It encourages the development of independent learning skills and will help parents and educators to create a personalized reading programme for a gifted child at home or small groups of children in school.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 213mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9781843105701
• ISBN-10: 1843105705
• Artikelnr.: 23884134

Autorenporträt

Margaret Stevens is qualified in special needs teaching and has personal experience of raising a gifted child. She lives in the UK and since her retirement has been acting as a mentor for distance learning pupils of her reading programme for able young readers.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. Preface. 1. The Nature of the Book. 2. Reading and Responding. 3.
Inventing Open Challenges and Recording Progress. 4. Choosing and
Juxtaposing the Books. 5. Practical Issues. 6. Language and Writing. 7.
Looking to the Future. Further Reading. References. Index.