Authors: Susan E. Israel, Dorothy Sisk, Cathy Collins Block
ISBN-13: 9781412916981, ISBN-10: 1412916984
Format: Paperback
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: New Edition
Dorothy Sisk holds an endowed chair in education of gifted students at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. Throughout her career, she has been intensely involved with the education of gifted and talented children. Sisk is an international consultant focusing on leadership, communication, and creativity development. She was a professor at the University of South Florida, coordinating programs for training teachers of the gifted, and former director of the US Office of Gifted and Talented in Washington, DC. She currently directs the C.W. Conn and Doroth Ann Conn Gifted Child Center at Lamar University and teaches courses in gifted education. She received the Distinguished Leader Award from the Creative Education Foundation (CEF) in 1989, the Distinguished Service Award from the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) in 1983 and 1994, the Creative Lifetime Award from CEF in 1994, and was selected for the Hall of Fame Award of CEF in 2005.
Sisk served as one of the founders and the first president of the American Creativity Association, and president of The Association for the Gifted (TAG), the Florida Association for the Gifted, and the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children, where she also was the executive administrator and the editor of Gifted International from 1980 to 1990. She has conducted training sessions throughout the U.S. and internationally. Sisk is the author of Creative Teaching of the Gifted; coauthor with Doris Shallcross of Leadership: Making Things Happen, The Growing Person, and Intuition: An Inner Way of Knowing; coauthor with E. Paul Torrance of Gifted Children in the Regular Classroom and Spiritual Intelligence: Higher LevelConsciousness; and coauthor with Susan Israel and Cathy Block of Collaborative Literacy: Using Gifted Strategies to Enrich Learning for Every Student. In addition, she has contributed numerous articles and chapters in books on gifted education, creativity, and leadership development.
Developed for reading educators, this rich resource incorporates higher level thinking and reading strategies that promote academic achievement for both gifted learners and struggling students. Susan E. Israel, Dorothy A. Sisk, and Cathy Collins Block, recognized leaders in the fields of reading and literacy, provide teachers with tools to create collaborative literacy classrooms where students can generate ideas independently, discuss them, and then develop new concepts within a group environment. Collaboration boosts critical thinking skills and helps develop and enrich reading, writing, speaking, and thinking experiences not just for gifted readers, but for all learners!
Introduction : setting the purpose for building collaborative literacy | 1 | |
Pt. I | Gaining wisdom about gifted students to build collaborative literacy | |
1 | What does building collaborative literacy mean in the classroom? | 9 |
2 | Identifying and engaging advanced readers and gifted students in collaborative literacy | 29 |
3 | Strengthening instruction of gifted students with special needs in a collaborative literacy environment | 45 |
Pt. II | Building collaborative literacy communities in the regular classroom | |
4 | Developing and creating an enriched literacy collaborative | 71 |
5 | Building collaborative literacy in a multicultural classroom | 85 |
6 | Building collaborative literacy during reading and writing instruction | 101 |
7 | Building collaborative literacy with parents | 113 |
Pt. III | Building collaborative literacy using gifted and literacy strategies | |
8 | Using gifted literacy strategies with all students to increase higher level thinking and develop richer comprehension | 131 |
9 | Strategies to stimulate creativity during reading and writing | 145 |
10 | Building efficiency in using information through inquiry-based learning and technology | 155 |
11 | Evaluation of collaborative literacy in every classroom | 171 |
Pt. IV | Final reflections : congratulations on making personal connections and building collaborative literacy | |
12 | The mind of the teacher : a meta-reflection | 193 |