Our classroom bundles include everything you need to successfully use Junior Great Books® Inspire and Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire in your classroom—teacher materials, student materials for 30 students, and online professional learning to prepare you to begin using the Great Books Foundation's Shared Inquiry™ method of learning. Engage students in the power of Shared Inquiry learning across genres and disciplines. Bring evidence-based, collaborative discussions to your work with fiction, poetry, narrative nonfiction, and informational nonfiction on science and social studies topics.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 2 develops students’ reading comprehension, fluency, critical thinking, speaking and listening, and writing skills using the Shared Inquiry method of learning. All learners are welcomed into inquiry-based exploration of 14 outstanding literary texts through a full sequence of customizable activities.
Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 2 features nine informational nonfiction texts that that engage students with high-interest topics aligned to national social studies and science standards through Shared Inquiry discussion. This new, fully-updated edition includes:
- Updated information across every unit, including current statistics, new research, and technological advancements relevant to each selection
- Audio recordings for every unit
- Text-to-text connections to Junior Great Books Inspire selections
- High-interest topics that ignite students’ curiosity while aligning with national social studies and science standards
Each classroom bundle includes print materials for one teacher and 30 students:
- 1 set of JGB Inspire Series 2 Teacher Materials, which includes 1 Teacher’s Edition, 1 Student Edition, and 1 Reader’s Journal for teacher's use
- 30 JGB Inspire Series 2 Student Editions
- 30 JGB Inspire Series 2 Reader's Journals
- 1 set of JGB Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 2 Teacher Materials, which includes 1 Teacher’s Guide and 1 Student Log for teacher's use
- 30 JGB Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 2 Student Logs
- 1 Shared Inquiry Essentials online training course
Notes:
- Purchasers will be emailed a coupon code to register for a Shared Inquiry Essentials on-demand or online training course in our store, valid within a year of purchase.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 2
FICTION
- Fox and Stork
- Library Lion
- Going Down Home with Daddy
- The Magic Kerchief
- Chopsticks
- Wounded Falcons
- The Raft
- Itzel and the Ocelot
- How Ti-Jean Became a Fiddler
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
- Stand as Tall as the Trees
- Building a Dream: How the Boys of Koh Panyee Became Champions
- One Plastic Bag: Isatou Ceesay and the Recycling Women of the Gambia
POETRY
- Last Night, I Saw the City Breathing
- The Knowing
Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire 2
UNITS
- The Power of the People!
- The Life of a Library
- What's On Your Plate?
- Impulse Buying: How Stores Make Us Want More
- Roads Take a Toll on Wildlife
- Splash! Rustle! How Habitats Help Frogs Survive
- Figuring Out Drought
- Why We Need Bees
- Shifting Shores: Erosion in the Outer Banks
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