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Meeting The Needs Of Gifted Primary Readers, Lori K. Deboer
Meeting The Needs Of Gifted Primary Readers, Lori K. Deboer
Graduate Research Papers
Today's classrooms consist of students with a diverse range of social, emotional, and academic abilities. There are young children who enter school already knowing how to read or who learn quickly after they begin their education. Current literature seems to indicate that primary reading curricula in schools are not meeting these students' needs. This project was developed as one method to meet the needs of gifted primary readers.
The project consists of 10 books that were selected to challenge and address the intellectual, social, and emotional needs of gifted primary readers. For each book a series of discussion questions and …