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Luo, Linlin; Kiewra, Kenneth A. – Gifted Education International, 2021
Talent development research has uncovered common conditions for nurturing talented individuals: enriched early environment, appropriate instruction, long-term and deliberate practice, singleness of purpose, and centers of excellence. Talent research also reveals that parents play a critical role in arranging and facilitating these conditions and…
Descriptors: Parent Role, Talent Development, Young Children, Childhood Interests
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Olson, Mary W.; And Others – Roeper Review, 1988
Approximately 100 national spelling bee finalists and their parents were surveyed concerning their early literacy experiences and spelling practices. The fourth-eighth grade spellers showed an early interest in language activities; passed through developmental spelling stages earlier than average; and mastered words via visual memory strategies,…
Descriptors: Childhood Interests, Developmental Stages, Early Experience, Emergent Literacy