This one-year subscription gives you access to all student materials for Junior Great Books® Inspire Series 3 and Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry 3 through Junior Great Books Digital Classroom.
Junior Great Books Inspire Series 3 features all new selections in one anthology, including:
- Eight fiction selections
- Three narrative nonfiction texts
- Two poems
- One drama
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 3 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
- The House That Ate Mosquito Pie
- Fiona's Luck
- Ojiichan's Gift
- King of the Sky
- Home
- The Boy Who Drew Cats
- Shin-chi's Canoe
- Blancaflor
NARRATIVE NONFICTION
- Exquisite: The Poetry and Life of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Six Dots: A Story of Young Louis Braille
- Testing the Ice
POETRY & DRAMA
- Identity
- How to Paint a Donkey
- Mooncakes Tonight
Nonfiction Inquiry 3
UNITS
- STEM: Engineering to Solve a Problem
- Social Studies: Social Responsibility
- Social Studies: Personal Growth and Identity
- Life Science: Animal Growth and Development
- Physical Science: Weather and Climate
- Social Studies: The Oral Tradition
- American History: Westward Expansion
- Social Studies: Justice and Fairness
- Economics: Economic Decision-Making