Gifted Students Guide
The guide is designed for secondary students in gifted programs who have mastered the fundamentals of the curriculum and will benefit from advanced educational stimulation. However, many of the activities may be used successfully with a wide range of higher-achieving and highly motivated students.

Just Think!
This guide focuses on helping students develop higher-level thinking skills using the newspaper. Students need to be problem solvers and lifelong learners. The newspaper is a logical instructional medium for this cause. It is an authentic, real-world text, one that will engage students and provide the information they will need to make decisions throughout their lives.  Components include: The Bloom Six, an overview of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. National Standards and Higher-Level Thinking Skills showing examples of higher-level thinking skills identified in national content standards. Lesson Plans - presented in two parts: Open Their Minds, the teacher page, and Engage Your Brain, the student activity page.

Newspapers Maintain the Brain
A Teacher's Guide for Using The Newspaper to Enhance Skills (grades 4-12): (NAA) It has been called the living textbook and it lives up to that name. The newspaper can be used to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening, speaking, math, social studies and science. Critical thinking is a natural outgrowth of using the newspaper to learn. Each lesson begins with the skills involved in the process of that activity. Reproducible worksheets accompany most of the activities.