The Madison Public Library, in collaboration with the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), has curated a specialized book list for parents/guardians of advanced learners. This collection includes a diverse range of resources designed to support the unique educational, social, and emotional needs of gifted and talented students. The selected titles offer guidance on fostering intellectual growth, nurturing creativity, and addressing the challenges that advanced learners may face in school and at home. Whether you're seeking strategies for academic support or insight into the developmental needs of children with advanced learning needs, this comprehensive list serves as a valuable resource for parents/guardians looking to ensure their child thrives in both academic and personal pursuits.
Self-help guide that shares what it means to be gifted by bringing the reader into the world of giftedness and showing how best to engage the creative, sensitive, highly cognitive mind of gifted individuals.
Target Audience: 13 years and up
Practical ideas that parents and teachers can implement to help those struggling with perfectionism. Also good for perfectionists to read!
Target Audience:
Parent/Guardian/Caregiver, Teachers, 13 years and up
With chapters written by student and expert scholars who specialize in addressing the structural inequity and educational inequality in gifted and advanced learner programs, this book recommends practices and strategies for helping underserved high-potential students claim their right to an education that addresses their unique needs.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
Proven strategies for dealing with stress management, parents' and teachers' expectations, anxiety, cyberbullying, friendship troubles, and more make this the must-have guide for every gifted kid.
Target Audience: Ages 8-12, but also could be used by the caregivers of a gifted learner
Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. Their excitement is viewed as excessive, their high energy as hyperactivity, their persistence as nagging, their imagination as not paying attention, their passion as being disruptive, their strong emotions and sensitivity as immaturity, and their creativity and self-directedness as oppositional. Learn practical methods for nurturing sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism, and much more.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver, Teachers, 13 years and up
A Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children, the quintessential compendium of raising gifted children, has been revised! The new Parent’s Guide to Gifted Children includes issues of social media, screen time, LGBTQ, and bullying. For gifted children however, many of the needs remain the same- advocacy, educational planning, access to true peers, and more.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
Giftedness 101 dispels common myths about giftedness and challenges the view that eminence is the true signifier of giftedness.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
Explores ways for you to help your child at home and maximize your child's educational experience with strategies that are based on research, but easy to implement.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
The latest research in child development shows that many kids who have the brain and heart to succeed lack or lag behind in crucial “executive skills”--the fundamental habits of mind required for getting organized, staying focused, and controlling impulses and emotions. Learn easy-to-follow steps to identify your child’s strengths and weaknesses, use activities and techniques proven to boost specific skills, and problem-solve daily routines.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
This positive guide provides a science-based program for promoting teens' independence by building their executive skills--the fundamental brain-based abilities needed to get organized, stay focused, and control impulses and emotions. Learn step-by-step strategies to help your teen live up to his or her potential now and in the future--while making your relationship stronger. Helpful worksheets and forms can be downloaded.
Target Audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver, Teens
Addresses the trait sensitivity in children and offers a guide for highly sensitive children and their caregivers, including such topics as how to soothe highly sensitive infants, helping sensitive children survive in a not-so-sensitive world, and helping make school and friendships enjoyable.
Target audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver, Teachers
A guide to the biological, psychological and social factors that affect motivation with tools for tackling the motivational problems to boost your child's confidence and engagement in life.
Target audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
Living Gifted is your guide to making the most of a gifted life. With fifty-two tips – one for each week of the year – Living Gifted illuminates the steps on the journey to a full and satisfying gifted life. Its compelling format includes not only information, but also the opportunity for the reader to reflect, plan and practice the skills and knowledge introduced.
Target audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver
Does your child exhibit giftedness and behavioral issues like meltdowns, power struggles, and difficulty relating to their peers? Are they out-of-the-box thinkers requiring different teaching and learning methods? It's a widely held misconception that intellectual ability and social and emotional success go hand in hand. In fact, "twice exceptional" kids-those who are gifted and have simultaneous learning differences like ADHD, high-functioning autism, or dyslexia-are often misunderstood by parents, teachers, and themselves. This much-needed and empowering guide reveals the unique challenges these remarkable kids face, and offers strength-based, hands-on strategies for understanding, supporting, and advocating for twice exceptional kids. In a world that labels them lazy, scattered, attention-seeking, and a problem that can't be solved, these tools will help you reimagine the world through your child's unique perspective-so you can help them thrive.
Target audience: Parent/Guardian/Caregiver