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
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. 

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.
Support for Homeschooling Parents of Gifted Children
Ascend Micro School

Ascend Micro School is a faith-based K-5 hybrid school in northern Colorado Springs that partners with families to provide an engaging, learner-driven education rooted in compassion for the local community and the people in it. Your child can attend one, two, or three days a week, with the rest of learning happening at home, receiving highly-individualized instruction paired with collaborative learning. They embrace the strengths of curious, driven, passionate, gifted students and empower them through highly individualized instruction, place-based education, hands-on learning, and character development so that each child can strengthen the gifts that are uniquely theirs and vital to our world. 

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.

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. 
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.
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Minds More Awake: The Vison of Charlotte Mason
Anne E. White explores what is known as the Charlotte Mason, based on the educational philosophy of the 19th century British educator. The goal is to set a child on the path to an intentional, purposeful life. White explores both the practical and philosophical understanding the Mason's practices. White includes lots of examples of how to use these ideas in your own homeschooling. 
Classical Education & The Home School
Classical education is an idea whose time has come again. When parents see the failures of modern education, they look for better solutions and classical education is one that has been tested in the past and found to be good. For the Christian home educator, the classical education model is a path to joy and success. 
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 homeschoo...
Kids' Poems (Grades 1)
Regie Routman shares her delightful selection of free verse poems written by first graders that will inspire your second graders to think, I can write poems like this too! Regie provides strategies for using kids' poems as models to guide children to write poems about things they know and care about: learning to skate, disliking asparagus, playing with a best friend, and more. She describes the way she invites children to study the model poem, beginning by asking kids, What do you notice? She sh...
LeapPad Game - Mind Wars Interactive Game
Bring a friend and try this brand new way to play with your LeapPad! Travel around the board in this fast-paced, head-to-head game as you hit your buzzer before your friend can steal your question! Be the first to close all five windows and you will become the Mind Wars master and learn important 3rd-5th grade skills in math, language and fine arts, science, history, and geography!