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 5 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 5 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 5 Teacher Materials, which includes 1 Teacher’s Edition, 1 Student Edition, and 1 Reader’s Journal for teacher's use
- 30 JGB Inspire Series 5 Student Editions
- 30 JGB Inspire Series 5 Reader's Journals
- 1 set of JGB Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 5 Teacher Materials, which includes 1 Teacher’s Guide and 1 Student Log for teacher's use
- 30 JGB Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire Series 5 Student Logs
- 1 enrollment in our Shared Inquiry Essentials online or on-demand professional learning course
Notes:
- Purchasers will be emailed a coupon code to register for a Shared Inquiry Essentials on-demand or online professional learning course in our store, valid within a year of purchase.
Junior Great Books Inspire
FICTION
- First-Day Fly
- Stay True Hotel
- No Carnations for Ray Fink
- Beware Low-Flying Girls
- Choctaw Bigfoot, Midnight in the Mountains
- The Doorman
- The Well at Cascina Piana
- We Have Always Lived on Mars
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
- Lightning
- The Secret Kingdom: Nek Chand, a Changing India, and a Hidden World of Art
- Rattlesnake Mesa
POETRY & DRAMA
- There Are Birds Here
- Bones
- The True Potential of Tinikling
Nonfiction Inquiry, Inspire 5
UNITS
- A Fresh Start for Laundry
- Home Sweet Homestead
- Storytelling in the Time of Slavery
- Happiness, Health, and Houseplants
- Out-of-This-World-Weather
- When Cities Become Siblings
- From Stone to Sculpture
- Plain, Ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt
- Moving Together: Dances That Connect Us
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