Series 2 Teacher Materials
The Junior Great Books® Inspire Series 2 Teacher Materials include a Teacher’s Edition, Student Book, and Reader’s Journal. The streamlined Teacher’s Edition puts critical information at your fingertips as you guide student exploration of 14 all-new reading selections, including:
- Nine fiction selections
- Three narrative nonfiction texts
- Two poems
The Teacher’s Edition features:
- Instructional frameworks for the full Shared Inquiry sequence to support teachers as discussion leaders, complete with focus and cluster questions to spark lively discussion
- Detailed planning and implementation notes that share key information about each text at a glance
- Guidance for integrating the Reader’s Journal into each session
- Audio recordings of each selection read by professional voice actors
- Student learning spectrums and differentiated instruction that support and challenge all students across each session of Shared Inquiry
- Prereading activities, fluency practice, vocabulary activities, extended writing, and creative response activities, and more to supplement Shared Inquiry
- Extended projects that connect texts to science and social studies curriculums and build research, organizational, presentation, artistic, and interpersonal skills
- Access to printable Online Resources to help you plan, track, and reflect on discussions, as well as assess student growth over time
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