Help Your Talented Child: An essential guide for parents [Paperback]

Able and Talented specialist Barry Teare brings parents and carers right up-to-date with new developments on the thinking and provision for gifted children. He advises how to provide able children with the very best opportunities by working in partnership with schools and specialist organizations. The book includes masses of imaginative activities to challenge and stimulate able and talented children.

Introduction
Section 1: Issues
What's in a name?
The present state of play
What can be expected
Two-way communication
How the school might identify your child as able and talented
All sorts of abilities
The central place of thinking skills
Challenge for progress Different ways of working
The golden component that is time Homework
Presentation and spelling
Changing schools
Looking after your able child
Able underachievers
Section 2: Getting Further Advice and Help
Specific subject advice, resources and help
Art Drama
English Geography
History
Mathematics
Modern foreign languages
Music
PE, sport and dance Religious education, philosophy and citizenship
Science
Technology (food, textiles, design) Section 3: Some Recommended Children's Fiction