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Continue reading →: Teachers, Are You Wearing Too Many Hats?As we approach the end of this school year, and based on all of the teacher memes displaying frantic, stressed, and incredibly tired teachers, it’s time for us to reflect on what got us here. . . You know you’re wearing too many hats when . . You find yourself…
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Continue reading →: The 12 Days of Literacy Strategies for Gifted Readers: Day 1 Five Pillars of LiteracyDay 1: Tool 1 Five Pillars Extensions In anticipation of the release of my new book ‘Literacy Strategies for Gifted and Accelerated Readers’ I’ve created the 12 Days of Literacy Strategies and free tools for teachers. We focus much of our reading instruction on teaching kids the five pillars of…
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Continue reading →: Here’s Your SignIn 1968 I was in kindergarten in Staten Island, NY at P.S. 8 It was quite a tumultuous first year of school for me. I was out of school more than I was in. No, I wasn’t an attendance problem – God forbid! But 1968 brought with it some very…
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Continue reading →: Literacy Strategies: Creative ReadingTo grow intellectually, gifted students need challenging books. They need fiction with complex plots and carefully developed characters, and informational books that explore topics in depth. They should read books and periodicals that spark their imaginations, broaden their horizons, and cause them to wonder and question. – Thomas Gunning (1992)…
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Continue reading →: Day 5 Literacy Strategies for Gifted Readers:When reading instruction is too easy for gifted readers, there is a danger of becoming lazy or complacent readers and learners. Gifted readers require reading instruction at their instructional level the same as every reader. Find out how to provide a robust reading culture in ‘Literacy Strategies for Gifted and…
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Continue reading →: The 12 Days of Literacy Strategies: Day 4 How to DifferentiateWhat we know about gifted readers may not be based in fact. It may instead be based on myths about gifted learners in general. We need to separate out the fact from the fiction about gifted readers before we can learn how to differentiate our reading instruction for them. Day…
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Continue reading →: Who is the Gifted Reader?Order today! Today my book “Literacy Strategies for Gifted and Accelerated Readers” is released! Today is also Day 3 of Literacy Strategies free teacher tools. Find out more through this free video about the needs of gifted readers. Like this post? Then tweet it to your followers or Pin it…
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