Notes+on+Books+-+July+22,+2011

=Notes on Books= July 22, 2011

You can use picture books with any audience. They have many layers.

__Ramona-__ By Beverly Cleary __SkippyJon Jones-__ Judith Byron Schachner __Elijah of Buxton-__ and other books by Christopher Paul Curtis- intermediate books __Unlocked__- Karen Kingsbury- About Autism __Chrysanthemum__- Kevin Henkes
 * Books/Authors mentioned that have had an impact on workshop members:**


 * Criteria for a good book:**
 * Vivid scenes
 * Good words
 * Good pacing
 * Age appropriate
 * Relate to the story
 * Relates to real life situations
 * Emotions


 * Books for gifted students:**
 * Complex humor
 * Reading level appropriate
 * Problem solving
 * Characters they can relate to


 * Fisher:**
 * Content appropriate for grade level
 * Appropriate reading level- vocabulary and challenging sentence structure
 * At least one main character who is gifted or relating to giftedness

Sites: [|UNLV Bibliotherapy Book Search] [|Topics with book suggestions] [|History of Bibliotherapy]
 * Bibliotherapy- Helping through books:**

Identification- relate to problem Catharsis- feel characters pain Insight- understand Application- know what to do

__True to Form-__ By: Elizabeth Berg-Main character having trouble making friends, younger than other classmates
 * BOOKS MENTIONED:**

__Mysterious Benedict Society__- By: Trenton Lee Stewart- Boy and 3 others respond to ad looking for gifted students. It has mystery, action, and puzzles. The reader can follow along and solve the puzzles. Sequal called __The Perilous Journey.__ Could be used with lower elementary advanced readers or upper elementary

__Someday Angeline-__ Louis Sachar- Angeline is above level, father doesn't know what to do with her, teacher picks on her, so she acts out, makes a friend and throughout the book helps her to connect with another teacher. Shows experience of being different and why it is important to talk about it. __Millicent Min, Girl Genius-__ Taking college classes for fun, meets a girl to be friends with, college girl manipulates her to do her work. She makes a friend at volleyball camp, but doesn't want to tell her about her giftedness. Look inside the mind of a highly gifted child. __The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place-__ By E.L. Kongisburg- Gifted girl's summer with her older uncles, saving a clocktower. About her internal motivation to do things. __Savvy-__ Ingrid Law- Each person in the family has a different power __The Radioactive Boy Scout-__ By Ken Silverstein- For adults. Boy who built nuclear reactor in backyard. Lessons about making appropriate choices. __Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good:__ By: Miriam Adderholdt- written around 3rd grade reading level. Self-help type book. __Nobody's Perfect-__ By: Ellen Flanagan Burns- more of a children's book __Oh No!- How My Science Project Destroyed the World__- By Mac Barnett- graphic novel style- combines GT and technology __Deliver Us From Normal-__By: Kate Klise- Good for children who come from limited backgrounds __No More Dead Dogs-__ Gordan Korman __The Dreamer-__ By: Pam Munoz Ryan and Peter Sis __the curious incident of the dog in the night time-__ By: Mark Haddon- ADULT book- about a child with Asbergers __The London Eye Mystery-__ Siobhan Dowd __Weslandia-__ By Paul Fleischman __Wimberly Worried-__ Kevin Henkes- Anxiety and worries __Owen__- Kevin Henkes- Emotional attachments


 * Books and the Keys of Giftedness:**
 * Asychronous Development (ex. __If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi,__ __Matilda)__
 * Degree of giftedness (Ex. __Frederick)__
 * Intrinsic Motivation (ex. __Olivia)__
 * Introversion (ex. __A Bad Case of the Stripes)__


 * Books and Overexcitibilities:**
 * Intellectual (__If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi?)__
 * Imaginational (ex. __Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon__, __Olivia__)
 * Emotional (Ex:__A Bad Case of the Stripes)__
 * Psychomotor (Ex.__Olivia)__
 * Sensual (ex. __Frederick)__

Venn Diagrams, Problem Comparison, Character Trait Maps

__The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide- for 10 and Under-__ Judy Galbraith M.A. __The Gifted Kids' Survival Guide- A Teen Handbook-__ Judy Galbraith M.A. and PH.D. Jim Delisle __Smart Talk-__ Ph.D. Robert A. Schultz and Ph.D. Jim Delisle __More Than a Test Score-__ Ph.D. Robert A. Schultz and Ph.D. Jim Delisle Caution- Don't overdo a book, or you can kill it. You can't do every activity with a book.

Bibliotherapy and Gifted- [|Unwrapping the Gifted]

__Some of my Best Friends are Books-__ Judith Wynn Halstead- Good Resource for Gifted Books