Intended for teachers, administrators, and consultants, the booklet discusses purposes and objectives of teaching literature to gifted students in grades 1-3. Literature is seen as the heritage of important ideas in writing, and the purpose of the primary level gifted child's study of literature is defined as primarily the accumulation of ideas.…

The booklet is intended to assist teachers in developing literature units of study that will enable the gifted student in grades 4-6 to better understand the different kinds of reading material, the human condition, and himself as a person. Following the explanation of the objectives and principles of literature study, different genres are…

Highlighting some of the newer understandings about the nature of giftedness, the goals of educating gifted children, problems of identification and motivation, and development of giftedness during the preschool years, chapters are devoted to the development of creative readers and to the teaching of research concepts and skills. The final chapter…