books about: gifted     books:     Gifted      Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom: Strategies and Techniques Every Teacher Can Use to Meet the ... Susan Winebrenner, Pamela Espeland Free Spirit Publishing, 2001 YOU NEED THIS BOOK! If you are reading this review, I suspect that you are a teacher. If you are a teacher, you need this book! Every classroom has at least ONE gifted child; one child who finishes his or her work first, goes to a center and blasts through the work there, with ease. I ...             Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, ... Fireside, 1986 Still Reaping Benefits Five Years Later This was the only book/tool I purchased to teach my daughter to read. We began when she was 2, and she was proficient enough by age three to navigate her own computer. She continued to progress and was reading chapter books by age 4. The most remarkable thing about ...             The Clique Summer Collection #4:Kristen (Clique Series) Poppy, 2008 A wicked good time As a member of the exclusive Pretty Committee clique, Kristen Gregory is popular (times 10), stylish, snobby, fake-rich and insecure. But she has a secret that even her PC friends don't know. Her biggest secret is also her salvation and a source of joy. Kristen belongs ...             Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication, and Creativity Kris Bordessa Zephyr Press, 2005 Upbeet, Creative, Fun! I am a therapist at a child and adolescent day treatment for kids with emotional and behavioral issues. It can be difficult to find activities that seem to motivate and energize the kids. They enjoyed many of the activities in this book. The activities are very ...             The Mysterious Benedict Society Trenton Lee Stewart Little, Brown Young Readers, 2008 Outstanding fiction for middle readers (and their parents) What tremendous fun this is! I read the first 100 pages aloud to my mother after she had surgery. Then the book got so compelling and engaging that I had to race through silently and leave poor Mom to fend for herself. (I gave her a copy of her own for Mother's ...             Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story Ben Carson, Cecil Murphey Zondervan, 1996 A Surgeon's Rise in the Medical Profession The book documents the early life and rise to medical stardom of Dr. Benjamin Carson- a now famous neurosurgeon. The volume begins with the childhood experiences and upbringing of Ben and his brother Curtis. Ben tended to cram his studying at the last minute. ...             George's Secret Key to the Universe Stephen Hawking, Lucy Hawking Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2007 Captivating My 3.5 year old son is completely hooked on this fabulous book! We're plowing through it in just a few nights and he doesn't want it to end. I was floored when after the first night of my husband reading it to him he ran up to me excitedly the next morning and said ...             The Highly Sensitive Person Elaine N. Aron Ph.D. Broadway Books, 1997 The Highly Sensitive Person I wish I would have found out about this book years ago. I feel like someone wrote my autobiography. I feel validated and also excited to know that there are others who are like myself, Highly Sensitive. The most important thing is that despite my difficult childhood, ...             The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition Alice Miller Basic Books, 1996 A Significant Piece of the Puzzle Reading books about psychology, especially books dealing with childhood trauma, is a bit like looking into a shattered mirror. Some parts will accurately reflect aspects of one's own psyche; other parts will be too distorted to have any relevance. As far as mirrors go, ...             1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Veronica Zysk, Ellen Notbohm Future Horizons, 2004 Wonderful book! Of all the books I've purchased on the subject of Autism, this one is by far the best one. I was so tired of all the clinical, academic, despairing accounts of ASD in other books, that I stopped reading any material on Autism altogether. But, this book is ...             Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted Joss Whedon, John Cassaday Marvel Comics, 2004 Got me back !!! Astonishing x-men has got me back into the x-men. The story telling and the art are wonderful, the trade flows really well. After reading it I picked up the other 3 trades and started getting the title pulled in my comic shop with issue 25. Astonishing also got me ...             The Verbal Behavior Approach: How to Teach Children With Autism and Related Disorders Mary Barbera, Tracy Rasmussen Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2007 From a Mother's Perspective As a mother of three children on the spectrum, I want to share how much this book has changed our lives forever. Hope is a powerful feeling and one given to us from this book. We were going along following the "standard" recommendations of the professionals working ...             The Soul's Code: In Search of Character and Calling James Hillman Grand Central Publishing, 1997 Life-Changing Perspective After reading Moore's "Care of the Soul," I decided to move on to his teacher, James Hillman. And I am glad I did. This book gave me pause to conduct my own personal "archetypal autobiography," an exercise that has utterly transformed my life. Hillman's insights ...             Exceptional Children: An Introduction to Special Education (8th Edition) William L. Heward Prentice Hall, 2005 A Great Book If You Want An Intro to Special Education I love this book! I purchased a used copy in 2001 to help prepare for my (then) upcoming Massachusetts State Teacher exam in special education, which I passed on my first try. It is a very useful source of information and contains a ton of facts. It presents special ...             Primary Grade Challenge Math Edward Zaccaro Hickory Grove Press, 2003 Fun applications of elementary math skills The book is organized into chapters, with each chapter presenting a type of problem and the ways to think about that problem. And then there is a series of related story problems to solve, divided into 4 levels. For example, one chapter is about calculating whether ...          products you might be interested in search for books activities, astonishing, communication, cooperation, exceptional, introduction      toavi.com    web we recommend Still Reaping Benefits Five Years Later randomly chosen DVD: A Knight's Tale (Special Edition)