Grade 4 Student License (Digital)

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$21.95

Type:: Student Books
Short Description:: JGB Digital Classroom: | $21.95 | DCL-S4-DE | NOTE: Digital books cannot be printed.
Product Format:: Digital

Description

This one-year subscription gives you access to all fiction and nonfiction student materials for Junior Great Books^® Grade 4 through the new and improved Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.

Junior Great Books Series 4 Fiction consists of two books, each with nine stories by award-winning authors organized by theme. The program, focused on high-quality literature and student-centered discussion, provides a superb framework for teaching reading comprehension, critical thinking, vocabulary, and writing. The nine Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 4 selections explore historical and contemporary issues and align with national social studies and science standards. They also connect to concepts in Junior Great Books literature so that students can meaningfully compare texts across genres and curricular areas.

If you are interested in purchasing Junior Great Books Digital Classroom for multiple grade levels, please contact your Great Books K–12 partnership manager.

Students using the NEW Junior Great Books Digital Classroom can:

Listen to professionally recorded audio versions of the readings (fiction series only) with tracked audio to help them follow along as they listen
Highlight and annotate texts in several different ways and colors
Type comments and questions as they read
See glossary definitions, which appear alongside the text, of potentially unfamiliar words
Make notes and highlights that carry over from one activity to the next throughout each unit
Track their thinking through each unit using free-response activities

Fiction Book One

TRUST

Thank You, M'am: Langston Hughes
Crow Call: Lois Lowry
Fresh: Philippa Pearce

RESOURCEFULNESS

Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser: Ukrainian folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer
On Sand Island: Jacqueline Briggs Martin
The Green Man: Gail E. Hailey

COMMUNICATION

Song of Hope: Peggy Duffy
Jean Labadie's Big Black Dog: French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson
Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo: African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman

Fiction Book Two

STRENGTH

Tuesday of the Other June: Norma Fox Mazer
Doesn’t Fall Off His Horse: Virginia A. Stroud
The Cello of Mr. O: Jane Cutler

INTEGRITY

The No-Guitar Blues: Gary Soto
The Fire on the Mountain: Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau
Ooka and the Honest Thief: Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds

PERSPECTIVE

The Old Woman and the Wave: Shelley Jackson
Letting Swift River Go: Jane Yolen
The Apple and the Envelope: Herbert Montgomery

Nonfiction Inquiry 4

UNITS

Economics: Wants vs. Needs: Air Jordans: Demanding the Brand
Life Science: Animal Intelligence: Crows: Friend or Foe?
STEM: Engineering to Solve a Problem: Young Inventors Making the Future Brighter
Social Studies: The Oral Tradition: The Life and Legend of Johnny Appleseed
American History: Westward Expansion: Zitkala-Sa at Boarding School
Social Studies: Social Responsibility: "We Show Up for Each Other"
Social Studies: Justice and Fairness: Peer Solutions: Better Than Punishment?
Physical Science: Weather and Climate: Leave It to Beavers?
Social Studies: Personal Growth and Identity: Bystanders Who Stand Together