Relevant documents and links

• Underachievement – Overview of what is meant by underachievement, how it can be identified and how the issue can be addressed.
• Study Skills - Mentoring Able Underachievers – Helping underachievers identify their learning styles.
• Promoting Boys" Learning - Mentoring Able Underachievers – Resources to promote learning in boys.
• Learning Mentor Training - Mentoring Able Underachievers – Resources for training those who are to mentor able underachievers.
• Brain Power - Mentoring Able Underachievers – Explores brain-based learning ideas.
• Common characteristics of able pupils – List of characteristics commonly shown by able pupils.
• Identification methods - strengths and limitations – Assessment of the different methods commonly used to identify gifted pupils, showing the strengths and limitations of each approach.
• Gifted children with a learning difficulty – Gifted children with learning difficulties often go unidentified. This document describes the issues that can hamper identification of such children.
• Identifying disadvantaged highly able children – List suggesting methods that can be used to identify disadvantaged highly able children.
• Gender issues – Table identifying common reasons for underachievement in English for boys and girls and possible teaching methods that can be employed to address these issues.
• Able Underachievers PowerPoint to match Flash animation – Powerpoint presentation (to match flash animation) on able underachievers.
• The National Literacy Trust"s EAL webpages – This section focuses on people of all ages from ethnic minorities for whom English may or may not be a first language.
• Mentoring Able Underachievers – Designed for those involved in the provision of gifted and talented education within primary and secondary schools.