Reading and Writing about Literature

Designed for gifted students who are reading at a third through sixth grade level, the Reading and Writing about Literature course develops students' abilities to read critically and to think about what they have read. Using literature from around the globe and from a variety of genres, the course presents students with exercises designed to increase their comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary skills, as well as develop stronger analytical thinking skills. These exercises have been carefully designed for each book to assess and monitor students' ability to understand and retain what they have read. The exercises use many presentation formats to assess a student's literacy skills in areas such as vocabulary, word analysis, literal and inferential comprehension, and higher-level thinking.

For many books, students will also practice their writing skills by composing responses based on a series of questions designed to help students think about what they have read. The books in the course span grade levels from three through eight and are suitable for gifted students as young as six years old.

As with the Language Arts and Writing (LAW) course, students will have the opportunity to interact with their course instructor by email and in the EPGY virtual classroom. Special discussion sections for particular titles will also be available when ten or more students are reading the same book at the same time.

The course is not graded.

Students registering for Reading and Writing about Literature (RWL) are eligible to register for the Language Arts and Writing course (LAW) concurrently without paying additional tuition.

Books

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