Gifted Child
Homeschooling a gifted child can be done. In fact, you will find that your gifted child can flourish like never before when educated at home. Here you'll find support, encouragement, ideas, and strategies for homeschooling your gifted child.
Homeschooling Your Gifted Child
Testing and Assessment: What Do the Tests Tell Us?
Many parents arrive in the world of gifted education with a report full of tests results, supposedly defining their child as "gifted." But more often than not, parents have more questions than answers upon receiving those test results. And just as often, the short answers from the psychologist, the school, the teachers, and other parents do more to confuse than clarify.
Gifted Kids' Bill of Rights
A list of ideals for interacting, living, and learning with a gifted child.
Should You Homeschool Your Gifted Child?

Homeschooling your gifted child gives you the ability to discover what interests him or her and meet those interests in the best way possible. You can incorporate alternative learning strategies, movement, field trips and other real-life learning, and diverse social groups to meet the needs of your homeschooled gifted child. 

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling Gifted Children

As more families choose to homeschool their children, parents of gifted learners and twice-exceptional children are discovering the benefits of home education. This guide discusses what is giftedness, why you should homeschool your gifted child, how to homeschool your gifted child, and offers support, information, and recommended materials. 

Support for Homeschooling Parents of Gifted Children
7 Simple Strategies to Homeschool Gifted Kids Well

Yes, homeschooling a gifted child is possible! Homeschooling gives you the opportunity to meet unique needs perfectly. This article talks about how to keep up with a child who devours curriculum, how to encourage depth and breadth in learning, and how to get help and support in your homeschooling gifted journey. 

GHF Gifted Homeschoolers Forum

The mission of the Gifted Homeschoolers Forum is to empower every gifted family to make strategic, proactive, and intentional educational choices. This community started out of the need to create learning environments for gifted children to thrive. Going strong for over 15 years, this community offers sharing of resources, information, and support. 

Resources for the Gifted Child
Homeschooling and Libraries: New Solutions and Opportunities

Homeschools are alwsy looking for alternative ways of schooling that do not necessarily reflect what a typical classroom looks like. Since homeschooling is so diverse across families, information institutions, including public, academic, school, and special libraries may find it challenging to meet all their needs and desires. This collection of essays offers approaches and strategies from library professionals and veteran homeschoolers on how to best serve the needs and experiences of homeschooled youth. This book includes information on special needs homeschooling, gifted students, and African American students as well.

Bright Kids at Home
This is a place for families who want to homeschool for academic reasons or who are already homeschooling gifted and talented students. Here you will find ideas about how you might homeschool your gifted student.
In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences
Children learn in differing ways. Thomas Armstrong specializes in helping parents identify the unique areas in each of our children that enhance their special way of learning and expressing creativity. This work on multiple intelligences talks about the eight different kinds of multiple intelligences, showing you how to discover your child's particular areas of strength. 
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Discovery of the Child
Maria Montessori went beyond the conventions of the day to seek a new way of knowing and loving a child. In THE DISCOVERY OF THE CHILD, she describes the nature of the child and her method of working more fully with the child's urge to learn. With 16 pages of photographs.
Only Child: Writers on the Singular Joys and Solitary Sorrows of Growing Up Solo
Only children don’t have to share bedrooms, toys, or the backseat of a car. They don’t have to share allowances, inheritances, or their parents’ attention. But when they get into trouble, they can’t just blame their imaginary friends. In Only Child, twenty-one acclaimed writers tell the truth about life without siblings—the bliss of solitude, the ache of loneliness, and everything in between.In this unprecedented collection, writers like Judith Thurman, Kathryn Harrison, John Hodgman, and Peter ...
H. A. Guerber's Histories
Helene A. Guerber wrote histories for grammar school children in the 19th century. Published in 1896 by the American Book Company, ‘Guerber’s Historical Readers in the Eclectic Readings Series’ were used to introduce children to the histories of the ancient and classical world. These engaging narratives are richly detailed accounts of the lives and times of the most important people of the period, arranged chronologically. The people are placed within the context of their times, and their histor...
The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12
Fun and Effective Home Learning Activities for Every SubjectAs a homeschooling parent, you're always looking for new and creative ways to teach your child the basics. Look no longer! Inside this innovative helper, you'll find kid-tested and parent-approved techniques for learning math, science, writing, history, manners, and more that you can easily adapt to your family's homeschooling needs. And even if you don't homeschool, you'll find this book a great teaching tool outside the classroom. You...
Free to Learn: Introducing Steiner Waldorf Earkt Childhood Education
Free to Learn is a unique guide to the principles and methods of Steiner Waldorf Early Childhood education. The author draws on kindergarten experience from around the world, with stories, helpful insights, lively observations and pictures. This inspiring book will interest parents, educators, and early years education students. It is up to date, comprehensive, and contains many illustrations, including a 16-page color section. Lynne Oldfield invites you to explore Steiner Waldorf kindergarten...