TO BE GIFTED & LEARNING DISABLED: Strategies for Helping Bright Students with LD, ADHD and More

by Susan M. Baum & Steven V. Owen

This completely revised and expanded edition of the popular classic addresses the unique needs of children who are both gifted and facing learning difficulties (called GLD). This valuable resource explores contemporary psychological theory and research, and offers practical strategies for teaching these students and helping them plan and explore options for their future. There are three new chapters on self regulation, developing comprehensive IEPs for GLD students, and the roles parents and counselors can play in meeting the social and emotional needs of GLD students, and more! Grade Level: K-12

You're Smarter Than You Think:  A Kid's Guide to Multiple Intelligences

Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D.

Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences has revolutionized the way we think about being smart.  Written by an award-winning author and leading expert on multiple intelligences, this book helps kids make the most of their own learning strengths.  In clear, kid-friendly language, this book introduces Gardner's theory, explains the eight intelligences, and describes 22 ways to develop each one.  Kids learn how to use the intelligences in school, strengthen them at home, and draw on them to plan for the future.

Kindergarten Primary Education Thinking Skills

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Primary Education Thinking Skills (PETS): A Curriculum for Higher Level Thinking

Margaret Wolfe, Sally Thomson, Jody Nichols, and Dodie Merritt

Use this full year curriculum to introduce your students to Dudley and Detective and Sybil the Scientist, the convergent thinkers; Isabel the Inventor and Yolanda the Yarnspinner, the divergent thinkers; Jordan the Judge, the evaluative thinker; and Max the Magician, the visual thinker. Use the whole group lessons to practice and reinforce high level thinking skills. Use the small group lessons for enrichment. Your students will have fun learning about thinkers who use clues to find one right answer, brainstorm to find lots of answers, study parts of things, use imaginations, look for patterns, and use considerations.  Grades K-3

Primary Education Thinking Skills  2 (PETS 2)

Margaret Wolfe, Sally Thomson, Jody Nichols, and Dodie Merritt

PETS 2 is an extension of those thinking strategies from the original PETS book. Students discover how, as they work together, to blend their thinking skills to problem solve. Introduce your students to Dudley the Detective, Sybil the Scientists, Isabel the Inventor, Max the Magician and more. This full year, ready to use, self-contained curriculum includes detailed lesson plans, assessment checklists read-aloud/along stories, a series of reproducible class activities and games to practice and reinforce high level thinking skills.  Grades 1-3.

Primary Education Thinking Skills 3 (PETS 3)

Merritt, Nichols, Thompson, Wolfe

In PETS 3, the characters continue to blend their thinking skills in a problem-solving format.  More complex problems in logic, intervention, visual perception, and evaluation develop these thinking strategies more fully in the young learner thorough stories and whole class games and activities.  These small group lessons simulate students with high-interest, challenging activities, more intensive thinking games, and a variety of hands-on puzzles to solve.  Detailed lesson plans are provided for the whole class and small group lessons.

Active Questioning

Nancy Johnson

Discover how students can become good questioners. Teachers can learn and model the difference between the passive process of answering questions and the active process of creating questions. Learning how to ask questions is easy and fun with these practical sets of activities producing 100s of questions. Get kids involved in questioning readiness, "skinny" and "fat" questions, "before & after" thinking and more.

Questioning Makes the Difference

Nancy Johnson

Questioning Makes the Difference identifies 4 kinds of classroom questions that motivate learners to develop better thinking skills and classroom products. Gives 100s of ready-to-use questions in many content areas and all grade levels.

The Quick Question Workbook

Nancy Johnson

A full-year's curriculum of lessons to help kids practice learning and using good questioning skills.  It utilizes the best way to get creative, high level thinking from students.  Nancy gives them creative, high level examples on which to piggyback.  Includes, My Turn, Your Turn, Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!, Hooked on Bluebirds, Rhyming Questions, Let's Talk Turkey!, It's the Cat's Meow, Noun Practice, Catch the Question Bug Game, Cool Contraptions, A Fence Full of Questions, and more!