TAG Resources

Reading List

• You Know Your Child is Gifted When..., by Judith Galbraith. This is a great book for parents and students who are new to the world of being gifted. Think about reading it as a family book club. Each member of the family can share a favorite quote or a question generated from their reading during dinner or family time. Each week the family can focus on a different chapter, or let a different family member lead a conversation about the book.

• How Do You Raise a Prodigy?

• Book: Inch and Miles: The Journey to Success

• Book: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

• Book: Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good

• Book: On the Social and Emotional Lives of Gifted Children

• Book: Living with Intensity

• Book: Parenting Gifted Kids

• Book: The Gifted Teen Survival Guide

• Book: When Gifted Kids Don't Have All the Answers

• Book: Gifted Kids Survival Guide Teen Handbook

• Book: You Know Your Child is Gifted When...

• Book: Smart Boys

• Book: Smart Girls

• Book: Guiding the Gifted Child

• Book: The Survival Guide for Parents of Gifted Kids

• Additional books and resources for parents of capable children

Resources

• Camp Invention

• Destination Imagination

• Different Minds

• Mensa for Kids

• NASA Space Place

• OATAG

• Perennial Math

• Reed College Young Scholars

• Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted (SENG) 

• More TAG Resources

• National Association of Gifted Children 

• Oregon Department of Education Talented and Gifted 

• Oregon Association for Talented and Gifted 

• Saturday Academy  - Tuition assistance available 

• Destination Imagination 

• FIRST LEGO League

• Oregon Robotics Tournament and Outreach program 

•  Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth 

• NASA  with link to NASA Kids Club 

• Science News for Kids 

• Cool Science

• TAG Student Learning Resources

• List of books for 5th grade or higher reading level

Things To Do

• ScienceWorks - Hands-on Museum

• Hellgate Jetboat Excursions

• Butte Creek Mill

• Crater Lake National Park

• Table Rock Hike

• Wildlife Safari

• Wildlife Images Rehabilitation and Education Center

• Oregon Caves

• Oregon Vortex

• Rogue Jet Boat Adventures

• Parks & Recreation Classes and Activities

• Craterian Theater Teen Musical Theater of Oregon 

• The Petroglyphs 

• Fort Klamath

• Lava Beds National Monument

• Captain Jack’s Stronghold

• Oregon Museum of Science and Industry

• Cole Fish Hatchery