Books for gifted children from Royal Fireworks Press, publishers for the gifted education curriculum.

LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM FROM MICHAEL CLAY THOMPSON Grammar, Vocabulary, Poetry and Writing Quick Links... Word Within The Word Vocabulary program Magic Lens Grammar program Poetics series Writing series Free Downloads | Videos | Join his Email List

Royal Fireworks Press is the world's largest publisher of books for gifted children.

Our aim is to enhance the educational experience of gifted and talented children and to provide teachers, administrators, homeschoolers and parents with the books they need at affordable prices.

Amongst our 800 titles we are particularly proud of Michael Clay Thompson's language arts curriculum.

We welcome inquiries from authors about publishing books for gifted children. Submission guidelines download (PDF, 61KB)

All of our books are printed and bound in the United States by union workers using recycled paper, vegetable-based inks, and environmentally friendly cover coatings. 

LATEST NEWS 

• Congratulations to VS Chin whose middle-school, interactive novel, Dragon Girl, has won her a 2010 Georgia Author of the Year award... read more.

• MCTLA , the homeschoolers' MCT discussion and support group, now has more than 1,000 members.
• Cathy Duffy has reviewed the MCT Curriculum on her website, saying: "I suspect that most parents will be inspired by these books, just as I was, since they reveal aspects of language arts that offer beauty and meaning."

• MCT's keynote speech to North Carolina Gifted Conference added to the downloads page. 

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• A useful handbook: Guide to Literary Terms, just published, and with a whole section in our new Sample Pages view which can also be seen in action in the descriptions of two new books by leading authors in Gifted Education: Joan Smutny's Manifesto of the Gifted Girl and Frances Karnes' The Book of Questions
  
• Two more books in the science series, Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals, Chemistry (see below) and The Cell, are now published. Each includes a CD for projection and dozens of practical and adaptable ideas for experiments, jokes and games to appeal to teachers, parents and children
• More novels: a sequel to the Wizard of Oz ; a new Paul Sullivan historical novel ; two new books in the Holt's Friends series, and for those interested in the environment: Tree Huggers
• A book of lessons to help gifted children communicate, by Dr Lou Lloyd-Zannini Insight Out
• The revised and redesigned Keepers of the Flame,  resource book for poetry and prose
• Michael Clay Thompson Curriculum Packages at discounted prices: some for school examination purposes and others specially for homeschooling

Remember

• Michael Thompson's slide show about how and when to introduce his grammar, vocabulary, practice, writing, reading and poetics. See implementation advice
• In OTHER NEW TITLES: latest novels for young adults and more teacher resources

FEATURED TITLES FOR GIFTED CHILDREN

Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Chemistry

The latest in the series of Dr. Dave’s Teaching Manuals, Chemistry, is accompanied by a CD that contains vivid images and diagrams which you may want to project for your visual learners as you proceed through your instructional presentation. The CD also includes notes for your students to copy.

Topics covered in this Manual include solutions, balancing chemical equations, the pH scale, chromatography and the separation of colored substances. Because the chemistry unit is naturally rich in Physical Science topics, while students are learning about the reaction between vinegar and baking soda for example, they will also be engaging in learning about the Law of Conservation of Mass. Read more: Dr Dave's Teaching Manuals: Chemistry

Guide to Literary Terms

The authors describe this useful handbook as a 'toolbox' of vocabulary for literary analysis. They list and define hundreds of terms that are used to study and appreciate literature and give wide-ranging examples of where they occur.

The sections cover: the forms and genres of literature, an introduction to style, Literary Movements and Periods, film studies and media literacy. There is a comprehensive index making the book useful for all students of English Literature. Read more: Guide to Literary Terms

Manifesto of the Gifted Girl

Manifesto of the Gifted Girl reaches out to girls and women in all walks of life and in every kind of circumstance.  It strengthens, inspires and counsels those are are struggling to find their place in school and society, as well as those who are launching out on their own for the first time. 

Framed with the voices of the girls themselves, the book is conversational in style Read more: Manifesto of the Gifted Girl

The Book of Questions

The Book of Questions For Students, Parents, Grandparents, and Teachers. Many adults look back on their childhood and regret that they did not ask enough questions.  The purpose of this book is to provide young people with lines of questions that will give them insights that will be important to them all their lives.

It was developed to assist students, parents, grandparents, and teachers in cultivating their relationships with one another, and to help each individual identify his or her own preferences and opinions on a variety of issues that can influence these relationships. Read more: The Book of Questions

Advanced Academic Writing Volume 2: Parent Manual

This Parent Manual for Advanced Academic Writing Volume 2 by Michael Clay Thompson is a new book for homeschooling parents who need to teach their children a proficiency in writing which they may not necessarily have themselves.  The book includes the pages of the student manual with special instructions and comments for the teacher/parent.

Whereas the Teacher Manual is for teachers and parents who are familiar with and at ease with instructing children in academic writing, many parents are not, and this Parent Manual offers several strategies so that they can address the needs of their children. Read more: Advanced Academic Writing Volume 2: Parent Manual

Insight Out...A challenge to Communicate

With detailed instructional strategies this important new book offers twenty-five lessons to restore voice to the gifted student, the student who has been silent, possibly feeling as an outsider and who has still to understand   that he or she has much to share with others.

For teachers of high-ability learners, this book “is a call to excellence in communication."  Read more: Insight Out...A challenge to Communicate

Simple Guide to Screen Printing

Screen printing is a simple, enjoyable, and cost effective method of creating multiples of original artwork.  Artists and teachers will benefit personally and professionally by following the explicit and easily understandable steps in A Simple Guide to Screen Printing.

Vidabeth Bensen and Barbara Forshag guide you step-by-step through this printmaking process.  You will learn how to print your own designs on paper, cards, banners, T-shirts and create original prints for framing.  The materials are inexpensive, and teachers can use screen printing to enrich almost any area of their curriculum. Read more: Simple Guide to Screen Printing

Keepers of the Flame: Poetry and Prose Resource Book

This is a revised and redesigned edition of what has proved to be a wonderfully practical and inspirational book for teachers.

KEEPERS OF THE FLAME is a big book of 322 pages and has been described as 'a cornerstone for teaching poetry in all its glory to today's students and …a guiding torch for teachers to follow as they lead their students in appreciation of others’ poetry and to the poet inside themselves'.

Its aim is to enable students to be comfortable as readers, and as writers, of poetry. Its strategies and techniques have proved to work equally well with highly gifted students and with a whole range of students at every level: gifted, foreign language, average and those with learning disabilities. Read more: Keepers of the Flame: Poetry and Prose Resource Book

All Work and No Play: Teacher Manual

This is a high-school level problem-based learning unit focusing on child labor during the Progressive Era of American history. Students go through All Work and No Play in the role of members of the National Child Labor committee preparing for a Congressional Hearing. Presented with photographs from Lewis Hine, they launch into questions about the extent and nature of child labor, the differences in child labor in industry and agriculture, the background of child laborers, existing regulations on child labor and more. Read more: All Work and No Play: Teacher Manual

Excluded! Chinese Immigration to the US: Teacher Manual

This is a Problem-Based Learning unit about the Chinese Exclusion Laws in the late 1800s. Designed primarily for high school classes, students investigate how and why the Chinese Exclusion Laws came into being from the vantage point of a Congressman from California trying to decide whether support the Geary Act.

The Resource Book, Teacher Manual and Problem Log make up the Unit.

Before the unit is over, students are forced to consider what reasonable limits can or should be placed on immigration in a country that urged "bring us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses…" Throughout, students draw powerful parallels to contemporary immigration issues. Read more: Excluded! Chinese Immigration to the US: Teacher Manual

Scientist's Survival Guide

 In this memoir and ‘survival guide’ he tells of odds overcome, goals achieved as well as failures and missteps along the way. He gives detailed advice on how to plan and conduct research projects and how to apply for patents. He discusses ethical issues and how to leave an unsatisfactory job. Throughout, his devotion to scientific endeavour and his interest in the people he has met along the way, some of whom are the leading chemists of the 20th century, make fascinating reading. Read more: Scientist's Survival Guide

Bloom's Taxonomy Poster

Class sets of 25 or more: $8.00 each. (Order Code: 2432S) Add to Cart

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Based on the Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy; widely used in the education of gifted and talented children.

A classroom wall poster of approximately 2 feet by 3 feet, on glossy light card stock, uv coated for maximum durability. Based on Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy as revised, it sets out and explains the different levels of thinking in the cognitive domain, with question clues and student activities. Read more: Bloom's Taxonomy Poster