ABSTRACT
Using menus for enrichment and supplementary activities is the most common way of implementing menus in the classroom. In this case, the students usually do not have much background knowledge, and information about the topic may not be readily available to all students. There are many ways to use menus in the classroom. One way that is often overlooked is using menus to review or build background knowledge or access prior knowledge before a unit begins. Many gifted students have had preliminary exposure to the basic information needed in their classes. Compacting instruction is a two-step process. First, teachers need to develop an appropriate preassessment. Second, they must develop alternate work for the students who have shown proficiency and "compacted out" of some of the upcoming content. The development of a pretest is rarely as daunting as the next step, the alternate work.
