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Grade 5 Student License (Digital)

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JGB Digital Classroom: | $21.95 | DCL-S5-DE | NOTE: Digital books cannot be printed.
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Grade 5 Student License (Digital)

Grade 5 Student License (Digital)

This one-year subscription gives you access to all fiction and nonfiction student materials for Junior Great Books® Grade 5 through the new and improved Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.

Junior Great Books Series 5 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 5 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

HONESTY

Charles
Shirley Jackson
The Special Powers of Blossom Culp
Richard Peck
The Peddler’s Gift
Maxine Rose Schur

SELF-RESPECT

In the Time of the Drums
Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson
Learning the Game
Francisco Jiménez
The Invisible Child
Tove Jansson

FITTING IN

The Coming of the Surfman
Peter Collington
All Summer in a Day
Ray Bradbury
A Game of Catch
Richard Wilbur

Fiction Book Two

FAMILY

Kamau’s Finish
Muthoni Muchemi
Ghost Cat
Donna Hill
The Hemulen Who Loved Silence
Tove Jansson

HUMILITY

The Enchanted Sticks
Steven J. Myers
Kaddo’s Wall
West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander and George Herzog
The Prince and the Goose Girl
Elinor Mordaunt

COMPASSION

A Bad Road for Cats
Cynthia Rylant
Lenny’s Red-Letter Day
Bernard Ashley
Through the Mickle Woods
Valiska Gregory

Nonfiction Inquiry 5

UNITS

American History: Westward Expansion
Home Sweet Homestead
Economics: Wants vs. Needs
Give It Up for Happiness
Social Studies: The Oral Tradition
Storytelling in the Time of Slavery
Physical Science: Weather and Climate
Out-of-This-World Weather
Social Studies: Individual Development and Group Dynamics
How Free Should Recess Be?
STEM: Engineering to Solve a Problem
Thomas Heatherwick: Making Things Happen
Social Studies: Social Responsibility
The Richest Man in the World
Social Studies: Leadership
Plain, Ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt
Life Science: Habitat Destruction
Roads Take a Toll on Wildlife