Nancy Young, Ed.D.
Reading | Writing | Learning
Giftedness Resources
The New book
co-edited by Nancy Young and Jan Hasbrouck
Climbing THE LADDER OF READING & WRITING
Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners
Instruction for gifted children is addressed in Climbing THE LADDER OF READING & WRITING:
Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners
Ch. 13: Advanced in Reading (AIR) (Nancy Young)
Additional Book Recommendations
- Education of the Gifted and Talented (7th ed.).
Rimm, S., Siegle, D. & Davis, G. (2018). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com) - Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students. Finn, Chester & Wright, Brandon (2015). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
- Gifted Education: A Survey of Current Research on Giftedness and Talent Development.
Plucker, J. & Callahan, C. (2020). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com) - Education of the gifted and talented (7th ed.). Rimm, S., Siegle, D. & Davis, G. (2018). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
- Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-Ability Students. Cambridge, MA: Finn, Chester & Wright, Brandon (2015). Harvard Education Press. (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
- Gifted Education: A Survey of Current Research on Giftedness and Talent Development. Plucker, J. & Callahan, C. (2020). (Amazon.ca) (Amazon.com)
Articles / reports
- Advanced Readers in Reading First Classrooms: Who Was Really “Left Behind”? Considerations for the Field of Gifted Education https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0162353215592501
- A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America’s Brightest Students https://www.accelerationinstitute.org/nation_deceived/
- A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America’s Brightest Students https://www.accelerationinstitute.org/nation_empowered/
- Is There a Gifted Gap? Gifted Education in High-poverty Schools https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/research/there-gifted-gap-gifted-education-high-poverty-schools
- Myths About Gifted Kids https://nagc.org/page/myths-about-gifted-students?&hhsearchterms=%22myths%22
- North Carolina Academically or Intellectually Gifted Program Standards (2021) https://www.dpi.nc.gov/nc-aig-program-standards-0/open
- Pre-K-Grade 12 Gifted Education Programming Standards https://nagc.org/page/National-Standards-in-Gifted-and-Talented-Education
- Top 20 Principles from Psychology for PreK–12 Creative, Talented, and Gifted Students’ Teaching and Learning https://www.apa.org/ed/schools/teaching-learning/top-principles-gifted.pdf
Websites
- Acceleration Institute at Belin Blank Center
- National Association of Gifted Children
- Renzulli Center for Creativity, Gifted Education, and Talent Development (n.d.). The Schoolwide Enrichment Model
- The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented.
- William & Mary School of Education Center for Gifted Education (link to curriculum materials)
- World Council For Gifted And Talented Children
- The Center for Depth and Complexity