Hi - I saw a question posted on a local GT site, and I have a feeling someone has some ideas here. The poster was looking for documentation that she can bring to a teacher who is having kids do extra challenge reading work on top of the regular classroom reading work. It sounds like the group of kids doing the challenge work is already proficient in the regular classroom stuff, so the extra challenge stuff (which is more interesting and appropriate), feels more like a punishment. The student would rather drop the challenge stuff than do double work. The parent was going to try to argue that he should be able to drop the regular work, but the student thought it would be unfair if the other kids in the challenge group had to do both. So the parent wants to arm herself with resources/documentation to give to this teacher while arguing that all the challenge kids be able to just do the challenge work. Ideas? thanks

Teaching gifted kids in the regular classroom: strategies and ...
by Susan Winebrenner

I believe this book states something about a child can show mastery doing less math problems, skip half or side B. Then do the supplemental work. My son did this in 2nd Grade math. It worked very well.

You might search this on the Davidson database.