This book represents a summation of a decade's worth of therapy, research, workshops, and presentations around the unique aspects of social-emotional development in the neurodivergent community. The book grounds its approach in neuroscience and then applies those data to how our brains impact our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. As a child psychologist who specializes in working with this population, I pride myself on identifying the challenging aspects of having a different brain and empowering kids to manage those differences. As such, this book will contain sections that directly address the parts of being gifted that have traditionally been emphasized less: making friends, maintaining relationships, regulating emotions, communicating your feelings and needs appropriately, and being able to identify contextual factors to understand why people are acting the way they are. Naming the issues is one thing, but each section will contain case examples, clinical advice, and tangible skills that will help students grow in the areas of social-emotional learning (SEL). These skills are deliverable, generalizable, and appropriate for school, home, and the community. Most importantly, they work. I often say that I want my clients to have a little pocket Dr. Matt to help them navigate the world; this book is my attempt at creating that kind of external support.

Help maximize your child's chances of acing the COGAT(R)! When it comes to gifted test prep, don't risk your son or daughter being unprepared and underperforming on test day.

Your child must be familiar with test material AND be able to focus on test material for longer than the typical 4-5 minute attention span of most young kids. This book offers a chance to do both.

- Ensure your child has sufficient experience in answering the COGAT Level 8(R) nine question types, thanks to this book's 200+ practice questions. (Plus, after you purchase this book, look inside your book for info to instantly download your free 40+ question bonus eBook.)

- Make sure (s)he has acquired the mental stamina to focus on test questions with the book's COGAT(R) Practice Test (the book's Practice Question Set).

- Pinpoint your child's areas of strength/weakness with the practice test answer key.

- Capture your child's attention with bright, colorful illustrations and fun characters.

- Exercises focus on cognitive skill-building, reasoning skills, and problem solving abilities and thoroughly cover the COGAT Level 8(R) test sections: Picture Analogies, Picture Classification, Sentence Completion, Figure Analogies, Figure Classification, Paper Folding, Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, and Number Series.

(Note: If your child will take the COGAT(R), please do not purchase our stand-alone OLSAT(R) book also (they contain similar material). Instead, you should just select this book.)

Engaging young, creative, and boisterous minds with test prep material is challenging - that's why this book features fun characters, child-friendly themes, and colorful illustrations. Such engagement can help kids retain the information they'll learn in this book - and then apply it on test day!

What are your kid's dreams - to be a doctor, astronaut, or an engineer? Gaining acceptance to a coveted gifted and talented program or earning a spot in a sought-after, selective school could determine your child's educational path - or even his or her future career.

Help your child dream big and take the first steps on this exciting educational journey and achieve their dreams. YOU are your child's best teacher, and this book is here to help!

_{(COGAT(R) is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is not affiliated with Gateway Gifted Resources and does not endorse this product.)}

Help gifted children realize they're not alone, they're not weird, and being smart is a bonus, not a burden. Based on a survey of 1,000 gifted kids, this retitled edition of the classic Gifted Kids' Survival Guide is fully updated with the latest research. Readers learn how to cope with high expectations, perfectionism, labels, bullying, friendships, and more. Upbeat, informative, friendly, and compact, The Survival Guide for Gifted Kids is a must for young gifted children. At a time when many school gifted programs are scaling back, it's more important than ever for kids to have this essential guide to growing up gifted.

Survival Guides for Kids
Helping Kids Help Themselves(R)
Straightforward, friendly, and loaded with practical advice, the Free Spirit Survival Guides for Kids give kids the tools they need to not only survive, but thrive. With plenty of realistic examples and bright illustrations, they are accessible, encouraging, kid-friendly, and even life-changing.

How do other countries create smarter kids? What is it like to be a child in the world's new education superpowers? The Smartest Kids in the World gets well beneath the glossy surfaces of these foreign cultures and manages to make our own culture look newly strange....The question is whether the startling perspective provided by this masterly book can also generate the will to make changes (The New York Times Book Review).

In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are learning to think, in other words, and to thrive in the modern economy. Inspired to find answers for our own children, author and Time magazine journalist Amanda Ripley follows three Americans embed-ded in these countries for one year. Kim, fifteen, raises $10,000 so she can move from Oklahoma to Finland; Eric, eighteen, trades his high-achieving Minnesota suburb for a booming city in South Korea; and Tom, seventeen, leaves a historic Pennsylvania village for Poland.

Through these young informants, Ripley meets battle-scarred reformers, sleep-deprived zombie students, and a teacher who earns $4 million a year. Their stories, along with groundbreaking research into learning in other cultures, reveal a pattern of startling transformation: none of these countries had many smart kids a few decades ago. Things had changed. Teaching had become more rigorous; parents had focused on things that mattered; and children had bought into the promise of education.

Revised and updated edition helps educators increase rigor and depth for all advanced and gifted learners to fulfill their potential.

With increasing numbers of students receiving gifted services every year, it's more important than ever for differentiated instruction to go beyond adjusting content levels, task complexity, or product choice--it must truly challenge and support learners on all levels: academic, social, and emotional. This award-winning resource in the field of gifted education has been revised and updated to include:

• a discussion of underserved learners--particularly English language learners, students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and economically disadvantaged students
• updated information on learning standards, MTSS, and universal screening
• new guidelines for honors courses
• a focus on scholarly questioning, ethics, and empathy
• a novel new strategy to increase curricular depth and complexity
• information on learning orientations
• new research on neurological differences of gifted learners
• the pros and cons of co-teaching and how to assess its progress
• new tools to increase achievement, plus a discussion of underlearning
• the benefits of coaching and lesson study
• the authors' perspectives on and guidelines for grading

Downloadable digital content includes customizable reproducible forms and a PDF presentation; a free PLC/Book Study Guide for use in professional development is also available.

Recognize and support twice-exceptional (2e) learners to help them succeed in school--and beyond.

Twice-exceptional (2e) learners have often been misunderstood, disciplined, unchallenged, and left behind. Even as awareness of 2e learners has grown, educators are still in need of practical tools to recognize and support their twice-exceptional students. This book answers that need, providing teachers with accessible information about twice-exceptional diagnoses and suggested accommodations, modifications, and collaboration with other educational professionals.

Dedicated to the needs of all 2e learners, the first part of the book covers identifying and understanding 2e students, strength-based instruction, motivation and self-regulation, and executive functioning skills. The second part details how gifted students are affected by another diagnosis, including:

• Specific learning disabilities
• ADHD
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Processing difficulties
• Anxiety-based diagnoses
• Depression and other mood disorders

This book equips educators with information that will make it easier for them to advocate for their 2e students, including what they need to know about the individualized education plan (IEP) and Section 504 plan process. Special topics, such as gifted students with physical disabilities, students experiencing trauma, and gifted learners from diverse backgrounds, are also included.

With Teaching Twice-Exceptional Learners in Today's Classroom, educators can better identify, support, and meet the needs of their 2e students.

Help maximize your child's chances of acing the COGAT(R) When it comes to gifted test prep, don't risk your son or daughter being unprepared and underperforming on test day.

Your child must be familiar with test material AND be able to focus on test material for longer than the typical 4-5 minute attention span of most young kids. This book offers a chance to do both.

- Ensure your child has sufficient experience in answering the COGAT Level 7(R) nine question types, thanks to the book's 200+ practice questions.

- Make sure (s)he has acquired the mental stamina to focus on test questions with the book's COGAT(R) Practice Test (the book's Practice Question Set).

- Pinpoint your child's areas of strength/weakness with the practice test answer key.

- Capture your child's attention with bright, colorful illustrations and fun characters: full-color pages.

- Exercises focus on cognitive skill-building, reasoning skills, and problem solving abilities and thoroughly cover the COGAT Level 7(R) test sections: Picture Analogies, Picture Classification, Sentence Completion, Figure Analogies, Figure Classification, Paper Folding, Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, and Number Series.

(Note: If your child will take the COGAT(R), please do not purchase our stand-alone OLSAT(R) book also (they contain similar material). This COGAT(R) Level 7 book is all you need.)

Engaging young, creative, and boisterous minds with test prep material is challenging - that's why this book features fun characters, child-friendly themes, and colorful illustrations. Such engagement can help kids retain the information they'll learn in this book - and then apply it on test day

What are your kid's dreams - to be a doctor, astronaut, or perhaps...president? Gaining acceptance to a coveted gifted and talented program or earning a spot in a sought-after, selective school could determine your child's educational path - or even his or her future career.

Help your child dream big and take the first steps on this exciting educational journey and achieve their dreams. YOU are your child's best teacher, and this book is here to help

_{(COGAT(R) is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is not affiliated with Gateway Gifted Resources and does not endorse this product.)}

- Ensure your child has sufficient experience in answering the COGAT Level 8(R) nine question types, thanks to this book's 300 practice questions.

- Make sure (s)he has acquired the mental stamina to focus on test questions with the book's COGAT(R) Practice Test (the book's Practice Question Set).

- Pinpoint your child's areas of strength/weakness with the practice test answer key.

- Capture your child's attention with bright, colorful illustrations and fun characters.

- Exercises focus on cognitive skill-building, reasoning skills, and problem solving abilities and thoroughly cover the COGAT Level 8(R) test sections: Picture Analogies, Picture Classification, Sentence Completion, Figure Analogies, Figure Classification, Paper Folding, Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, and Number Series.

Latest edition of the go-to classroom resource since 1992 for reaching and challenging gifted students.

This fourth edition of the orange bible brings fresh updates to the definitive guide to meeting the learning needs of gifted students in the mixedabilities classroom--seamlessly and effectively with minimal preparation time. Included are practical, classroom-tested strategies and step-by-step instructions for how to use them. The book provides information on:

• Compacting and differentiating skill work and new content
• Extending reading and writing instruction
• Planning curriculum for all students at the same time
• Supporting self-directed independent study
• Supporting curriculum standards and increasing curriculum rigor
• Boosting critical and creative thinking skills
• Using assessments to help students demonstrate what they already know
• Using technology for accelerated learning and to benefit twice-exceptional (2e) students
• Serving gifted kids with special needs
• Managing cluster grouping

Digital content includes a full chapter for parents as well as a PDF presentation for professional development, reproducible forms ready to customize and print for classroom use, and additional extension menus for the primary and upper grades.

Is your child ready for the COGAT?

Help ensure they do their best with two practice tests for the COGAT Level 9, for children in grade 3.

- Can your son/daughter focus on tests for longer than a few minutes (a real challenge for most kids)?

- Are they prepared to answer the COGAT's 9 question types?

This book helps you with both.

Book Details:

- 340 Practice Questions: Thorough coverage of the COGAT's 9 question types, so your child can do their best on the real test.

- COGAT Practice Tests: Build mental stamina and focusing skills critical for test day, thanks to these 2 practice tests.

- COGAT Practice Test Answer Key: Pinpoint your child's strength/weaknesses, so you can improve weaknesses before the test and achieve a higher score.

This book thoroughly covers each COGAT Battery and question type:

> Verbal Battery: Verbal Analogies, Verbal Classification, Sentence Completion

> Non-Verbal Battery: Figure Analogies, Figure Classification, Paper Folding

> Quantitative Battery: Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, Number Series

Your child has big dreams for the future...perhaps as a scientist, veterinarian, or pilot.

G&T acceptance/selective school acceptance helps open the door to educational success and a bright career.

Help your child dream big and take the first steps on this exciting educational journey and achieve their dreams.

YOU are your child's best teacher, and our books are here to help

Vertical Differentiation for Gifted, Advanced, and High-Potential Students outlines 25 engaging tools and strategies to stretch student thinking, promote deep learning, and provide layers of challenge in the classroom and beyond.

Each strategy is expertly designed to foster deep inquiry and conceptual understanding by guiding students to justify conclusions, apply critical and creative thinking, develop solutions to real-world problems, and transfer learning across contexts. Packed with both tried and true thinking models and new, innovative ideas with concrete examples, this resource ensures that no matter where students are in their learning journey, they'll find themselves challenged and engaged.

This book is essential reading for educators looking to support and extend student thinking across content areas and grade levels.

This gifted and talented test preparation book contains a full-length CogAT(R) Form 7 Grade 2 practice test, which provides gifted and talented CogAT test preparation for second grade students.



This Level 8 (Grade 2) test will prepare your child for the Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT(R)), a test for children that is used for admission to US gifted and talented programs, including the San Diego Unified School District GATE program, Houston Vanguard schools, and Chicago programs for the education of the gifted.



The questions in this CogAT practice test were created by educators who have prepared many children for gifted and talented tests. They cover all three of the test's sections (nine question types) so you can help your student improve the logical and visual reasoning skills required to excel on the CogAT test. This gifted and talented workbook also includes resources and tips for preparing for the CogAT test, and provides sample questions for each question type.



By using this gifted workbook, your student can get used to the format and content of the CogAT(R) Grade 2 test so he or she is adequately prepared and feels confident on test day.



This practice test contains all nine question types on the Level 8 CogAT, including:



Verbal (Picture Analogies, Sentence Completion, Picture Classification )


Quantitative (Number Analogies, Number Puzzles, Number Series)



Figurative (Figure Matrices, Paper Folding, Figure Classification)



We suggest you use the practice test as a diagnostic to identify your child's strengths and weaknesses, or as a 'mock' exam to simulate real testing conditions. In the latter case, we recommend that you have your child take the test in timed conditions over the course of a few days, as per the instructions in the book.



What's Inside this CogAT Test Prep Book for Grade 2?

A full-length CogAT Form 7 Level 8 practice test, containing 154 practice questions.

Access to bonus online 'challenge' questions so you can make sure your child has enough practice with harder questions.

Detailed descriptions of questions and answer keys.

Essential test prep strategies to help students avoid mistakes and achieve their best score.

This is the best value you will find for CoGAT prep

Who can use this CogAT(R) Prep Guide and Practice Test?

Gifted and Talented Test Preparation for 2nd Grade:

The gifted and talented workbook is for 2nd grade students who are taking the CogAT test to gain admission to Grade 3 gifted and talented programs.

Gifted and Talented Test Preparation for 1st GradeFirst grade students can also use this practice test to develop and hone cognitive skills that will be tested in 2nd grade for admission to third grade gifted and talented programs.

The Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT(R)) is a registered trademark of Houghton Mifflin Company, which has not endorsed the contents of this Origins Publications workbook.