Resources Gifted Middle School Readers
Articles Concerning Gifted Readers:
· ERIC Clearinghouse: Guiding the Gifted Reader – Author: Judith Wynn Halsted http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/eric/e481.html
- Appropriate Content for Gifted Readers http://www.dukegiftedletter.com/articles/vol4no3_cc.html
An Annotated Booklist for Purchase:
Your Reading: An Annotated Booklist for Middle School and Junior High, 11th Edition
Editor(s): Jean E. Brown, Elaine C. Stephens
Organized around the theme of challenges, the eleventh edition of Your Reading: An Annotated Booklist for Middle School and Junior High offers annotations of more than 1,200 books for young adults. Teachers, librarians, parents, and students will find good, recently published books that can be read for many purposes—for the sheer enjoyment of the story, to pique curiosity or satisfy it, to find new information or confirm old, to complete school assignments, or for the exhilaration of escape. Searching and browsing are made easy by indexes that provide alphabetical listings by author, subject, and title. This booklist is a valuable resource for those who seek to connect young people with books that will demonstrate that they are not alone—that they face challenges others also face. 387 pp. 2003. Grades 6–8. ISBN 0-8141-5944-3.
Online Resources for Gifted Readers:
A blog with Book Suggestions:
- The Book Whisperer – Mind the Gap: Engaging Gifted Readers
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/2009/03/mind_the_gap_engaging_gifted_r.html
A wiki with Booklists:
- Booklists for targeted age groups, school subjects, themes, values, etc.
http://atn-reading-lists.wikispaces.com/
Online Booklists:
- Hoagies’ Gifted Education Page Reading List
http://www.hoagiesgifted.org/reading_lists.htm
- The Literacy Alliance: Books for Gifted Readers: Middle School
http://www.thelitalliance.org/booklists/gifted.html
A Blog with Booklists:
This Live Journal, for the most part, pertains to books – book reviews, exclusive interviews with authors, press releases, and booklists. The journal has an emphasis on teen fiction.
- Booklist: Gifted Middle School Readers
http://slayground.livejournal.com/204598.html
- Booklist: Middle School Must-Haves
First, the absolute must-haves: realistic comedies and dramas set in middle school or with characters in that age group.http://slayground.livejournal.com/73379.html
- Booklist: Clean Reads for Early Teens
Good clean reads for teen girls who have “little interest in clothes, makeup and to a lesser degree, boys.” http://slayground.livejournal.com/170494.html
