Cover of Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School

Some of My Best Friends Are Books: Guiding Gifted Readers from Pre-School to High School

Challenge your gifted reader! Gifted children grow socially, emotionally, and intellectually from reading good books. This resource can help make that happen, by offering parents and teachers an annotated K-12 reading list with summaries of nearly 300 titles for bright students. Recommended books will both challenge and stimulate young minds. Cross-indexed by author, title, topic, and reading level, Halsted also includes questions for each book to promote discussion and understanding, in addition to the short book summaries.

Subject
education
Setting
USA
Audience
childrens
Length
long · 527 pages

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