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Choosing books for gifted readers

Written by Catriona Coote Tuesday, 06 September 2011 13:12

We live in a very busy world, where in most families the caregiver(s) is working at least one paid job as well as trying to raise children. For parents and carers of gifted readers, with their voracious appetites for books, it is impossible to always keep up with what they're reading – which is why the NSWAGTC Online Booklist (now the Reviews collection) came into being in the first place. The sad reality of this day and age is that we simply can't allow our children to read any book that they come across and can decipher. Gifted readers, who invariably read ahead of their chronological age, may not be psychologically or developmentally ready for contexts, concepts, characters and relationships often found in books intended for readers who are older in years, if not ability.

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