This one-year subscription gives you access to all student materials for Junior Great Books® Inspire Series 2 and Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 2 through Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 2 features all new selections in one anthology, including:
- Nine fiction selections
- Three narrative nonfiction texts
- Two poems
This series 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 outstanding texts by diverse authors from around the world.
Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 2 features nine thought-provoking informational nonfiction texts that yield rich questions.
Students using Junior Great Books Digital Classroom can:
- Listen to professionally recorded audio versions of the readings (Junior Great Books Inspire 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
- Track their thinking through each unit using free-response activities
If you are interested in purchasing Junior Great Books Digital Classroom for multiple grade levels, please contact your Great Books K–12 partnership manager.
Junior Great Books Inspire
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 2
UNITS
- Life Science: Bees and Pollination
- Physical Science: Properties of Stones
- Economics: Economic Decision-Making
- Life Science: Animals and Habitats
- Social Studies: Individual Development and Community
- Physical Science: Extreme Weather
- Social Studies: Folktales and Culture
- Social Studies: Social Responsibility
- Physical Science: Weather and Climate