While not all gifted children love reading and writing and they do not all have access to books or grow up in literary families the great majority of these children crave the rich and imaginative world that literacy has to offer. Differences in culture, age, and geography influence this love of storytellers, poets, songwriters, and novelists, but most gifted students are hungry for a creative path to the language arts. Incorporating the visual and performing arts into the curriculum can restore the sense of excitement and wonder that gifted students feel about language. This article offers activities which are intended to give teachers ideas on how they can meet the learning needs of gifted students in language arts. They all incorporate the visual and performing arts as a way of enabling gifted students to function at much higher cognitive levels while also challenging other students in the class.