Series 5 Student Materials
The Junior Great Books® Inspire Series 5 Student Materials include one Student Book and one Reader’s Journal. Featuring all new selections, 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.
The Student Book features 14 all-new selections in one anthology, including:
- Eight fiction selections
- Three narrative nonfiction texts
- Two poems
- One drama
The Student Book includes:
- Literary selections that explore wide-ranging, powerful experiences
- Beautiful artwork by award-winning illustrators
- Line numbers for students to cite and share evidence from the text
- Glossaries to support vocabulary acquisition
- Self-check lists to foster student independence
The Reader’s Journal complements the activities in the Teacher’s Editions and provides space for students to interact more deeply with the text and Shared Inquiry discussion. Reader’s Journals contain:
- Unique questions and prompts for each selection
- Structured discussion preparation and reflection sequences
- Evaluative, creative, and comparative writing prompts with graphic organizers
- Essay writing materials to guide students through planning, organization, and peer review
- Drawing activities for each selection
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
POETRY & DRAMA
- There Are Birds Here
- Bones
- The True Potential of Tinikling