This brief information sheet presents two strategies to motivate gifted students and is based on the book, "Teaching Gifted Kids in the Regular Classroom", by Susan Winebrenner. The curriculum compacting strategy allows students to spend less time with the regular curriculum and more time with extension and enrichment activities. The contracts strategy involves written agreements between teachers and students that outline what students will learn, how they will learn it, in what period of time, and how they will be evaluated. Specific guidelines are offered for implementing both compacting and contracts for: first, pretestable subject areas where students move between an instructional group and extension activities; and, second, subject matter that is not pretestable because of subject unfamiliarity to students. Guidelines are also offered for evaluating alternative work accomplished in both types of subject area. (DB)