Creative Activities for Gifted Readers: Grades 3-6: Dynamic Investigations, Challenging Projects, and Energizing Assignments

by Fredericks, Anthony D.

• ISBN13: 9781596471092
• ISBN10: 1596471093
• Edition: 1 ACT
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-20
• Publisher: Social Studies School Service

Summary

"Gifted students demand original, fresh and mind-expanding activities that stimulate their creativity and enhance high-level thinking abilities. Creative Activities for Gifted Readers provides that and more! The numerous single-period and multi-week activities in this book are designed to foster active involvement across the reading curriculum. Dozens of activity sheets that are progressively more involved and more demanding Word puzzles that excite and challenge Analogies that enhance language development in a host of content areas Short-term activities that promote individual discoveries Long-term projects that encourage the exploration of topics in detail Story energizers that can be used with any reading materials"

Author Biography

Anthony D. Fredericks, professor of education at York College in York, Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
How to Use This Book	p. 4
Puzzles and Problems	p. 7
Color My World	p. 8
Begin and End	p. 9
Word Whip	p. 10
Animals Inside	p. 11
Mixed-up Words	p. 12
In the Right Order	p. 13
Animal Farm	p. 14
One More Time	p. 15
Puzzle Me	p. 16
Add One More	p. 17
Crazy Headlines	p. 18
A Man, a Plan, a Canal: Panama!	p. 19
Up, Down, and Across	p. 20
Your Order, Please I	p. 21
Pyramid Sentences	p. 22
Sentence Challenge I	p. 23
Answer First	p. 24
What's Right? I	p. 25
In Short	p. 26
Your Order, Please II	p. 27
The Right Size	p. 28
Sentence Challenge II	p. 29
Fantastic Food	p. 30
What's Right? II	p. 31
By Ones and Twos	p. 32
Construction Junction	p. 33
The Right Place	p. 34
Front and Back	p. 35
Making Cents	p. 36
Who Said That?	p. 37
Simile Swing	p. 38
What's That?	p. 39
What's in a Name?	p. 40
More Than One	p. 41
Hinky Pinkys	p. 42
Word Wizards	p. 43
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Analogies	p. 55
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Activities	p. 77
Dictionary Dig	p. 78
Question and Answer	p. 78
Cross Words	p. 79
Jack Be Fleet	p. 79
Ha Ha, Hee Hee	p. 80
Do-It-Yourself Workbooks	p. 80
Catalog Capers	p. 81
New Labels	p. 81
In the Cards	p. 82
...By Its Cover	p. 82
Book Games	p. 83
Book It!	p. 83
Readers Wanted!	p. 84
Advertising Pays	p. 84
Answer First	p. 85
Character Sketches	p. 85
Words and Pictures	p. 86
In the End...	p. 86
Questions First	p. 87
Time after Time	p. 87
On the Spot	p. 88
Come to Your Senses	p. 88
Ad Campaign	p. 89
Our Town	p. 89
All the News	p. 90
Projects	p. 91
Books, Books, Books	p. 92
Fabulous Folklore	p. 93
Pet Parade	p. 94
Comic Relief	p. 95
Language Lovers	p. 96
Food Fare	p. 97
Crazy Computers	p. 98
Sports Report	p. 99
Name Game	p. 100
Monsters and Creatures	p. 101
Bicycle Bonanza	p. 102
Story Energizers	p. 103
Characters	p. 104
Settings	p. 106
Events	p. 108
Answer Keys	p. 111
Puzzles and Problems	p. 111
Word Wizards	p. 117
Analogies	p. 119
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