The language used in books for the gifted should enrich the text and challenge stimulate and stretch the reader A text for advanced readers should include complexity in plot structure A varie ID: 505669
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Title: Suggested Grade Level: 4Author: J. M. Barrie ISBN: 043929133X Genre: Fantasy Fiction Text Level: X/920L Summary: The adventures of Wendy, John, and Michael with Peter Pan, the boy who would never grow up. Based on the play written and produced by J. M. Barrie in 1904, the play was later turned into the book The language used in books for the gifted should enrich the text and challenge, stimulate, and stretch the reader. A text for advanced readers should include complexity in plot structure. A variety of literary devices should be employed by the authors in books selected for A gifted reader should have access to books with depth. Books with multicultural characters, settings, and themes can permit the advanced reader to look at people and events from differing perspectives and points of view. Language Arts Standards for Advanced Learners – Grade 4 COMPREHENSION Identify characters, setting, sequence of events, problem/resolution, theme X Compare and contrast elements of different genres Use visual and text to increase comprehension of informational texts Use different structures in text (e.g., description, problem/solution, compare/contrast, Cause/effect, order of importance and time) to increase Use context and relationship of text to text, text to self, and text to world X VOCABULARY Use context and genre to determine meaning of vocabulary (as well as other methods – as needed) Use context to determine meanings X As almost all students are familiar with the an opportunity to delve into considerable comparing and contrasting activities. The book is an amazing source of vocabulary terms. For example, on pages 132-133, the following words were found: unscrupulous, tranquilly, implicitly, ghastlier, intimation, undulating, phlegmatic, stealthily, yonder, wiliness, onslaught, ignorance, diabolical. Look for innovative versions of the Peter Pan story. Read to discover the authors’ purposes and points of view. McCaughrean Peter and the Starcatchers by Dave Barry by Dave Barry Learn about missing children advocacy Find out what you can about foster children programs. Many of these children are homes. Conduct a “teddy bear drive” to collect these difficult situations.