ABSTRACT

The Social and Emotional Curriculum for Gifted Students series provides the gifted resource specialist, regular classroom teacher, or counselor with the tools they need to help gifted students in grades 3-5 develop interpersonal skills, reflect on their often intense emotions, and express their creativity. The grade 3 book:

  • Contains five units and more than 50 hours of instruction.
  • Shares helpful directions for implementing lessons and connecting content across the curriculum.
  • Addresses psychosocial skills.
  • Features critical thinking activities, hands-on building and design, reading, writing, creativity, and math and science connections.
  • Covers relevant topics, including resilience, growth mindset, perfectionism, empathy, self-understanding and identity, friendship, and what it means to be gifted.

Each classroom-tested lesson addresses one or more affective standards from the National Association for Gifted Children, psychosocial development areas for gifted learners, and academic standards.

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

part Unit 1|24 pages

A Precious Gift

chapter Lesson 1.1|11 pages

What Is a Gifted Learner?

chapter Lesson 1.2|2 pages

Role-Playing Conversations About Giftedness

chapter Lesson 1.3|4 pages

The Precious Gift Metaphor

chapter Lesson 1.4|3 pages

Reflecting and Sharing a Precious Gift

part Unit 2|16 pages

My Flag

chapter Lesson 2.1|5 pages

Colors and Their Emotional Effects

chapter Lesson 2.2|3 pages

Creating Student Flags

chapter Lesson 2.3|5 pages

Presenting Student Flags

part Unit 3|29 pages

Bouncing Back

chapter Lesson 3.1|4 pages

How Can Something Be More Than Itself?

chapter Lesson 3.2|2 pages

Visualizing Resilience

chapter Lesson 3.3|4 pages

Bouncing Back

chapter Lesson 3.4|7 pages

The Class Data Challenge

chapter Lesson 3.5|3 pages

Empowering Words of Encouragement

chapter Lesson 3.6|5 pages

Action and Reaction Extension

part Unit 4|36 pages

Suitcases and Circles of Hope

chapter Lesson 4.1|6 pages

Primary Source Photo Analysis

chapter Lesson 4.2|7 pages

What Items Will You Take?

chapter Lesson 4.3|3 pages

Building Suitcases and Crafting Items

chapter Lesson 4.4|6 pages

Circle Metaphors

chapter Lesson 4.5|4 pages

Circles of Hope

chapter Lesson 4.6|4 pages

Gallery Walk

chapter Lesson 4.7|3 pages

Feature Profile Test Extension

part Unit 5|35 pages

What Comes from the Heart

chapter Lesson 5.1|4 pages

Qualities and Expression

chapter Lesson 5.2|6 pages

Defining Emotions and Qualities

chapter Lesson 5.3|4 pages

Creating a Metaphor for Emotions and Qualities

chapter Lesson 5.4|4 pages

Constructing the Metaphor

chapter |13 pages

Conclusion

Dear Gifted Learner