K-8 Catalog 2015-2016 ® Products and Professional Learning Participation for All

Without citizens who can read and think critically, democracy is threatened, and our freedoms—personal, social, and political— are subject to dissolution.

An independent, nonprofit educational organization, the Great Books Foundation fosters an inquiry-based approach to reading and discussion for students and adults in all walks of life. We believe that literacy and critical thinking help develop reflective and well-informed citizens. Our goal is to inspire people of all ages to become more knowledgeable, reflective, and engaged citizens.

“I think that Junior Great Books . . . is extremely helpful. . . . Not only does it help kids become better readers and have a better understanding of the book, but it also helps improve their confidence by not being afraid to speak up and share their opinions.” —Adamarys, eighth grader William Prescott Elementary, Chicago 6-year participant in Junior Great Books

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2 read.think.discuss.grow.® Transform your classroom and watch your students exceed your expectations with help from Junior Great What’s Inside . . . Books and the Great Books Foundation. Our fiction and nonfiction products are designed to empower your K–8 Why Choose Junior Great Books? ...... 4 students to find the deeper connections and meanings in texts and to identify new ways of exploring issues and K–1 Read-Aloud ...... 5 solving problems. Plus, our high-quality, customizable professional learning helps teachers become proficient Series 2 & 3 ...... 6 at the intricacies of inquiry-based instruction. Series 4 & 5 ...... 7 Inside this catalog you’ll find information on our elementary and middle school products as well as our Guided Reading ...... 8 professional learning options. You can also visit our website—greatbooks.org—to find: Nonfiction Inquiry ...... 10 • More materials for elementary and middle school Nonfiction Libraries/ThinkIt ...... 12 • Videos of our products and professional learning in action Great Books Roundtable ...... 14 • Detailed correlations to national and state curriculum standards Professional Learning ...... 16 • Additional downloadable resources • Updates on happenings and events Ordering Information ...... 19 • More information about our commitment to fostering respectful, open discussion that promotes civil discourse, civic engagement, and social justice Today’s standardized assessments ask students for more than just the facts—they test a student’s ability to find deeper meaning in texts and use Great Books Connections this knowledge to make new connections and solve problems. Developing these abilities in Stories, tips, and ideas focusing on the power of teaching and learning, as well as happenings your students requires a different approach to at Great Books. instruction and learning, one that is inquiry based.

Inquiry-based teaching and learning stand at the core of the Great Books approach. Let us help you integrate inquiry into your school/district curriculum and ensure that your students are college and career ready.

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greatbooks.org • 800.222.5870 3 Why Choose Junior Great Books®?

Our Junior Great Books materials feature high-quality literature to support an inquiry-based approach to Teacher’s Editions learning. The stories are selected or written for their • Include unit overviews and instructional support ability to support multiple interpretations and to for activity sessions encourage thought-provoking discussions. • Outline differentiated instruction strategies • Offer assessment suggestions and rubrics Students learn to: • Provide vocabulary activities • Find deeper connections and meanings in texts while identifying new ways of exploring issues and solving problems Student Books • Understand the importance of respectful, civil • Include outstanding stories by award-winning discussion and the value of listening to other people’s authors from many cultures and eras ideas and opinions • Demonstrate vivid writing through a diversity of settings, genres, and writing styles Teachers increase their proficiency in: • Organized by key, age-appropriate social- emotional themes throughout Series 2–5 • Posing thought-provoking questions • Helping students communicate complex ideas orally and in writing Reader’s Journals • Embracing the role of discussion facilitator • Reinforce the connection between reading and writing • Provide a framework for students to record their thinking as they work through the different activities for each story

Audio CDs • Professionally recorded audio versions of all stories provide another opportunity for students to hear a fluent reading of the texts.

Student & teacher eBooks are available for Junior Great Books Series 2–5. Order at store.greatbooks.org.

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4 read.think.discuss.grow.® K–1 Read-Aloud

JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS Sailing Ship Series Read-Aloud Program Pegasus Series Read-Aloud Program VOLUME 1 VOLUME 1 The Shoemaker and the Elves Chestnut Pudding Iroquois folktale as told by John Brothers Grimm as told by Wanda Gág Bierhorst The Frog Went A-Traveling The Pied Piper English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs Russian folktale as told by Vsevolod Garshin “Fanciful Animals” Poetry by Edward Lear and A. A. Sailing Ship Series VOLUME 1 Pegasus Series VOLUME 1 “Night into Dawn” Milne Poetry by Robert Hillyer and John Ciardi, and a Mescalero VOLUME 2 Apache Song The Mermaid Who Lost Her Comb Scottish folktale as told by Winifred Finlay VOLUME 2 Hansel and Gretel Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell The Tale of Two Bad Mice Beatrix Potter “Special Places” Poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks and Robert Frost, and a Navajo poem Bouki Cuts Wood Haitian folktale as told by Harold Courlander VOLUME 3 “Fantasy” Poetry by Sylvia Plath, Edward Lear, and Lewis Carroll Mother of the Waters Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein VOLUME 3 Zlateh the Goat Isaac Bashevis Singer Lion at School Philippa Pearce “Secret Messages” Poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson, Barbara Juster Esbensen, Coyote Rides the Sun Native American folktale as told by Jane Louise Curry and Emily Dickinson “Seasons” Poetry by Nikki Giovanni, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Langston Hughes

CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN JRA-SAI Student Books (3 Vol.) $17.95 978-0-945159-43-8 JRA-PEG Student Books (3 Vol.) $17.95 978-0-945159-41-4 JTE-SAI Teacher’s Edition $25.95 978-0-945159-74-2 JTE-PEG Teacher’s Edition $25.95 978-0-945159-96-4 JSM-CDSAI Audio CDs $50.95 978-0-945159-47-6 JSM-CDPEG Audio CDs $50.95 978-0-945159-45-2

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JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS Dragon Series Read-Aloud Program Sun Series Read-Aloud Program VOLUME 1 VOLUME 1 The Frog Prince Brothers Grimm as told by Wanda Gág The Black Hen’s Egg Guinea Fowl and Rabbit Get Justice French folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson African folktale as told by Harold Courlander The Mouse and the Wizard and George Herzog Hindu fable as told by Lucia Turnbull

Dragon Series VOLUME 1 Sun Series VOLUME 1 “Nature Speaks” “Imagination” Poetry by Carl Sandburg, James Reeves, Poetry by Leslie Norris, Mark Van Doren, and Federico García Lorca and Robert Louis Stevenson

VOLUME 2 VOLUME 2 Feraj and the Magic Lute Arabian folktale as told by Jean Russell Larson Rumpelstiltskin Brothers Grimm, translated by Ralph Manheim The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Beatrix Potter Eeyore Has a Birthday and Gets Two Presents A. A. Milne “Companions” Poetry by A. A. Milne, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Louis Stevenson “When I Grow Up ” Poetry by Rabindranath Tagore and X. J. Kennedy, and a Chippewa song VOLUME 3 VOLUME 3 Buya Marries the Tortoise African folktale as told by W. F. P. Burton The King of the Frogs African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman The Huckabuck Family and How They Raised Pop Corn in Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs Nebraska and Quit and Came Back Carl Sandburg Brothers Grimm, translated by Randall Jarrell “Magical Places” Poetry by Byrd Baylor, William Shakespeare, and Martin Brennan “Mysterious Animals” Poetry by T. S. Eliot, Jenifer Kelly, and Robert Graves

CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN JRA-DRA Student Books (3 Vol.) $17.95 978-0-945159-42-1 JRA-SUN Student Books (3 Vol.) $17.95 978-0-945159-40-7 JTE-DRA Teacher’s Edition $25.95 978-0-945159-73-5 JTE-SUN Teacher’s Edition $25.95 978-0-945159-95-7 JSM-CDDRA Audio CDs $50.95 978-0-945159-46-9 JSM-CDSUN Audio CDs $50.95 978-0-945159-44-5 greatbooks.org • 800.222.5870 5 Series 2 & 3

Junior Great Books Junior Great Books Junior Great Books® Junior Great Books® Series 2 • Book Two Series 2, Book One Series 2 Series 2, Book Two Bravery Generosity GeneroSiTy FRIENDSHIP erandi’s Braids The Happy Lion Antonio Hernández Madrigal Louise Fatio The invisible Hunters Miss Maggie Nicaraguan folktale as told by Harriet Rohmer Cynthia Rylant Fishing Day Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship Andrea Davis Pinkney THEME: FRIENDSHIP A West Indian folktale as told by James Berry THEME: GENEROSITY CommuniTy RESPONSIBILITY Perfect Crane Catalog Cats Anne Laurin Ann Cameron Hurricane Flowers Ethel Pochocki Carlos and the Cornfield Junior Great Books Junior Great Books Jan Romero Stevens ® my Great-Grandmother’s Gourd Junior Great Books Cristina Kessler Junior Great Books® The Happy Lion Louise Fatio The Wedding Basket Erandi’s Braids Antonio Hernández Madrigal A Nigerian folktale asSeries told by Donna 2 L. Washington Series 2 • Book Two Friendship BeinG yourSelF Community BR AVERY FRIENDSHIP The Wise little Toad GeneroSiTy Rosario Ferré The Jade StoneThe Happy Lion erandi’s Braids Antonio Hernández Madrigal Chinese folktale as toldLouise by Caryn Fatio Yacowitz Doodle Flute Daniel Pinkwater The Girl and theMiss Chenoo Maggie The invisible Hunters Nicaraguan folktale as told by Harriet Rohmer A Native American (Passamaquoddy)Cynthia Rylant folktale as told by The Velveteen rabbit Miss Maggie The Invisible Hunters Margery Williams Cynthia Rylant Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross Nicaraguan folktale as told by Fishing Day Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship Andrea Davis Pinkney Jack and the BeanstalkA West Indian folktale as told by James Berry An English folktale as told by Joseph Jacob CommuniTy RESPONSIBILITY Perfect Crane Catalog Cats Anne Laurin Ann Cameron Junior Great Books • Harriet Rohmer Hurricane Flowers SeriesJunior 2 Book Great Two Books Anancy and Dog and Puss and Friendship Carlos and theJunior Cornfield Great Books® Ethel Pochocki Jan Romero Stevens Series 2 Junior Great Books®

GBF_SA2-2_COVER_P3.indb 2 my Great-Grandmother’s Gourd 6/18/14 9:21 AM The WeddingSeries Basket 2 Cristina Kessler Series 2 • Book Two A Nigerian folktale as told by Donna L. Washington Responsibility Being yourself FRIENDSHIP BeinG yourSGeneroelF SiTy TheBR Happy AVERY Lion The Wise littleerandi’s Toad Braids Antonio Hernández Madrigal West Indian folktale as told by James Berry The Jade StoneLouise Fatio Fishing Day Andrea Davis Pinkney Rosario Ferré Chinese folktale as toldMiss by Caryn Maggie Yacowitz Doodle FluteThe invisible Hunters Nicaraguan folktale as told by Harriet Rohmer The Girl and Cynthiathe Chenoo Rylant Daniel Pinkwater A Native American (Passamaquoddy) folktale as told by The VelveteenFishing rabbit Day Joseph Bruchac and AnancyGayle Ross and Dog and Puss and Friendship Andrea Davis Pinkney A West Indian folktale as told by James Berry Margery Williams Jack and the Beanstalk An English folktale as told by Joseph Jacob CommuniTy RESPONSIBILITY Perfect Crane Catalog Cats Anne Laurin THEME: RESPONSIBILITY Ann Cameron THEME: COMMUNITY Hurricane Flowers Carlos and the Cornfield Ethel Pochocki • Jan Romero Stevens Series 2 Book Two Series 2 my Great-Grandmother’s Gourd The Wedding Basket Cristina Kessler

A Nigerian folktale as told by Donna L. Washington GBF_SA2-2_COVER_P3.indb 1 6/18/14 9:22 AM BeinG yourSelF BR AVERY The Wise little Toad Catalog Cats/Our Garden (from The Stories Rosario Ferré The Jade Stone Perfect Crane Anne Laurin Chinese folktale as told by Caryn Yacowitz Doodle Flute The Girl and the Chenoo Daniel Pinkwater A Native American (Passamaquoddy) folktale as told by The Velveteen rabbit Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross Margery Williams Jack and the Beanstalk Julian Tells) Ann Cameron An English folktale as told by Joseph Jacob Hurricane Flowers Ethel Pochocki Series 2 • Book Two Series 2 Carlos and the Cornfield Jan Romero Stevens My Great-Grandmother’s Gourd Cristina KesslerGBF_SA2-2_COVER_P3.indb 1 6/18/14 9:22 AM The Wedding Basket West African folktale as told by Donna L. Washington THEME: BEING YOURSELF THEME: BRAVERY The Wise Little Toad Rosario Ferré The Jade Stone Chinese folktale as told by Caryn Yacowitz Doodle Flute Daniel Pinkwater The Girl and the Chenoo The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams Native American folktale as told by Joseph Bruchac and Gayle Ross Jack and the Beanstalk English folktale as told by Joseph Jacobs

CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN PRS-SE2 Student Book (3 Vol.) $17.95 978-1-933147-00-0 PRS-SE22 Student Book (3 Vol.) $17.95 978-1-939014-88-7 PRS-TE2 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-933147-08-6 PRS-TE22 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-89-4 PRS-TE2-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-04-7 PRS-TE22-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-12-2

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BOOK TWO 3BOOK ONE 3 Relationships Gratitude Boundless Grace White Wave THEME: RELATIONSHIPS THEME: GRATITUDE Diane Wolkstein Mary Hoffman the scarebird Luba and the Wren Patricia Polacco Sid Fleischman Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat Basho and the river Stones Tim Myers Boundless Grace Mary Hoffman Jennifer Armstrong White Wave CouraGe Kindness the Monster Who Grew Small the Gold Coin Joan Grant Alma Flor Ada Chinese folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein 3 The Scarebird the Buffalo Storm Sid Fleischman the Magic listening Cap

Katherine Applegate Book Two Yoshiko Uchida Pierre’s dream the Mushroom Man Jennifer Armstrong Ethel Pochocki Luba and the Wren Chin Yu Min and the Ginger Cat CLeverneSS ConfidenCe the dream Weaver the Banza Concha Castroviejo Diane Wolkstein Ukrainian folktale as told by Patricia Polaccothe Man Whose trade Was tricks the Upside-down Boy Jennifer Armstrong George and Helen Papashvily Juan Felipe Herrera the emperor’s new Clothes the Ugly duckling Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Basho and the River Stones Tim Myers Gratitude Relationships THEME: KINDNESS Courage Kindness Cleverness Confidence

BOOK TWO The Gold Coin Alma Flor Ada 3BOOK ONE THEME: COURAGE 3 JGB3_BOOK2_COVERS_P4.indb 1 12/16/13 8:49 AM JGB3_COVERS_P5.indb 1 3/20/13 9:17 AM The Magic Listening Cap The Monster Who Grew Small Joan Grant Japanese folktale as told by Yoshiko Uchida The Buffalo Storm Katherine Applegate The Mushroom Man Ethel Pochocki Pierre’s Dream Jennifer Armstrong

THEME: CONFIDENCE THEME: CLEVERNESS The Banza Haitian folktale as told by Diane Wolkstein The Dream Weaver Concha Castroviejo The Upside-Down Boy Juan Felipe Herrera The Man Whose Trade Was Tricks The Ugly Duckling Hans Christian Andersen Georgian folktale as told by George and Helen Papashvily The Emperor’s New Clothes Hans Christian Andersen

CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN PRS-SE31 Student Book $17.95 978-1-939014-50-4 PRS-SE32 Student Book $17.95 978-1-939014-75-7 PRS-TE31 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-55-9 PRS-TE32 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-78-8 PRS-TE31-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-05-4 PRS-TE32-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-13-9 PRS-RJ31 Reader’s Journal $13.95 978-1-939014-58-0 PRS-RJ32 Reader’s Journal $13.95 978-1-939014-81-8

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4BOOK ONE 4BOOK TWO TrusT StrenGth THEME: TRUST Thank You, M’am THEME: STRENGTH tuesday of the Other June Langston Hughes Norma Fox Mazer Crow Call Doesn’t Fall Off his horse Lois Lowry Virginia A. Stroud Fresh the Cello of Mr. O Thank You, M’am Langston HughesPhilippa Pearce Tuesday of the Other June NormaJane Cutler Fox Mazer resourCeFulness InteGrIty shrewd Todie and lyzer the Miser the no-Guitar Blues Ukranian folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer Gary Soto 4 Doesn’t Fall Off His Horse 4 on sand Island Crow Call the Fire on the Mountain Lois Lowry Jacqueline Briggs Martin Book

Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander and Wolf Leslau BOOK TWO The Green Man Ooka and the honest thief Gail E. Haley

o I. G. Edmonds ne Virginia A. Stroud CoMMunICaTIon Fresh Philippa Pearce PerSPeCtIve song of Hope Peggy Duffy the Old Woman and the Wave Shelley Jackson Jean labadie’s Big Black Dog The Cello of Mr. O Jane Cutler Letting Swift river Go French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson Jane Yolen Thunder, elephant, and Dorobo the Apple and the envelope THEME: RESOURCEFULNESS African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman Herbert Montgomery

Trust THEME: INTEGRITY Strength Resourcefulness Integrity Communication Shrewd Todie and Lyzer the Miser Perspective BOOK ONE 4 The No-Guitar Blues Gary Soto 4BOOK TWO Ukrainian folktale as told by Isaac Bashevis Singer JGB4_BOOK2_COVERS_P5.indb 1 6/18/14 8:26 AM The Fire on the Mountain On Sand Island Jacqueline Briggs Martin Ethiopian folktale as told by Harold Courlander The Green Man Gail E. Haley and Wolf Leslau THEME: COMMUNICATION Ooka and the Honest Thief Song of Hope Peggy Duffy Japanese folktale as told by I. G. Edmonds Jean Labadie’s Big Black Dog THEME: PERSPECTIVE French-Canadian folktale as told by Natalie Savage Carlson The Old Woman and the Wave Shelley Jackson Thunder, Elephant, and Dorobo Letting Swift River Go Jane Yolen African folktale as told by Humphrey Harman The Apple and the Envelope Herbert Montgomery

CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN PRS-SE41 Student Book $17.95 978-1-939014-51-1 PRS-SE42 Student Book $17.95 978-1-939014-76-4 PRS-TE41 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-56-6 PRS-TE42 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-79-5 PRS-TE41-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-06-1 PRS-TE42-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-14-6 PRS-RJ41 Reader’s Journal $13.95 978-1-939014-59-7 PRS-RJ42 Reader’s Journal $13.95 978-1-939014-82-5

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BOOK ONE 5 5BOOK TWO Honesty Family THEME: HONESTY Charles THEME: FAMILY Kamau’s Finish Shirley Jackson Muthoni Muchemi the special Powers of Blossom Culp Ghost Cat Richard Peck Donna Hill the Peddler’s Gift The Hemulen Who loved Silence Charles Shirley Jackson Maxine Rose Schur Kamau’s Finish Muthoni Muchemi Tove Jansson

self-ResPeCt HumiliTy In the time of the Drums The Enchanted Sticks Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson Steven J. Myers The Special Powers of Blossom Culp Ghost Cat 5 learning the Game Donna Hill Kaddo’s Wall Francisco Jiménez West African folktale as told by Harold Courlander BOOK TWO and George Herzog the Invisible Child Tove Jansson The Prince and the Goose Girl Richard Peck The Hemulen Who Loved SilenceElinor Mordaunt fIttInG In ComPaSSion the Coming of the surfman Peter Collington a Bad Road for Cats Cynthia Rylant The Peddler’s Gift Maxine Rose SchurAll summer in a Day Tove Jansson Ray Bradbury lenny’s Red-letter Day Bernard Ashley A Game of Catch Richard Wilbur Through the mickle Woods Valiska Gregory THEME: SELF-RESPECT Honesty THEME: HUMILITY Family Self-Respect Humility Fitting In Compassion In the Time of the Drums 5BOOK ONE The Enchanted Sticks Steven J. Myers 5BOOK TWO JGB5_COVERS_P2.indb 1 3/20/13 9:19 AM JGB5_BOOK2_SE cover.indd 1 6/12/14 10:20 AM Gullah folktale as told by Kim L. Siegelson Kaddo’s Wall West African folktale as told by Harold Learning the Game Francisco Jiménez Courlander and George Herzog The Invisible Child Tove Jansson The Prince and the Goose Girl Elinor Mordaunt THEME: FITTING IN The Coming of the Surfman Peter Collington THEME: COMPASSION All Summer in a Day Ray Bradbury A Bad Road for Cats Cynthia Rylant A Game of Catch Richard Wilbur Lenny’s Red-Letter Day Bernard Ashley Through the Mickle Woods Valiska Gregory

CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN CODE ITEM PRICE ISBN PRS-SE51 Student Book $17.95 978-1-939014-52-8 PRS-SE52 Student Book $17.95 978-1-939014-77-1 PRS-TE51 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-57-3 PRS-TE52 Teacher’s Edition $99.95 978-1-939014-80-1 PRS-TE51-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-07-8 PRS-TE52-DE Digital Teacher’s Edition $49.95 978-1-939014-15-3 PRS-RJ51 Reader’s Journal $13.95 978-1-939014-60-3 PRS-RJ52 Reader’s Journal $13.95 978-1-939014-83-2

greatbooks.org • 800.222.5870 7 Guided Reading

Now Available: 3 Types of Collections

Like Junior Great Books, guided reading programs are an important component of a robust, high-quality literacy curriculum. By adding powerful questions to your guided reading program, you can ensure that your students are developing their reading and thinking skills while also becoming more engaged, enthusiastic readers.

Using powerful questions in your guided reading discussions helps students: • Build their critical thinking skills • Develop their listening and speaking skills across the curriculum

In addition, using powerful questions as prompts for writing exercises increases the coherence of your students’ learning across multiple guided reading sessions.

We are pleased to offer three different types of guided reading collections—Bookroom, Grade-Level, and Guided Reading Level Collections. All of these collections include: “The most important characteristic of a • Our brand-new teacher resource—Using Powerful book is not its level, but its quality and Questions to Enhance Guided Reading appeal to readers.” • A balance of fiction and informational materials —Irene C. Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell • Prepackaged 6-packs in plastic bags Guided Reading: The Romance and the Reality • Lesson Plan Cards for each title • An additional guided reading teacher resource with assessment and instructional support • Classroom-ready storage bins with leveling labels

Using Powerful Questions to Enhance Guided Reading provides ideas, activities, and practical guidance on: • Selecting texts • Encouraging and using students’ questions • Preparing questions • Extending understanding and increasing • Asking spontaneous questions comprehension

Reproducible masters for teacher and student templates, handouts, and graphic organizers are also included.

Download a free sample at greatbooks.org.

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SKU Description Price Bookroom Collections JGB-BRK3 Grades K-3 • Levels A-P • 960 Books (6-Packs of 160 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $5,849.95 JGB-BR46 Grades 4-6 • Levels Q-Z • 600 Books (6-packs of 100 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $4,009.95 Grade-Level Collections JGB-GRK Grade K (5 Levels, A-E) • 300 Books (6-Packs of 50 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $1,769.95 JGB-GR1 Grade 1 (8 Levels, D-K) • 480 Books (6-Packs of 80 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $2,899.95 JGB-GR2 Grade 2 (5 Levels, J-N) • 300 Books (6-Packs of 50 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $1,869.95 JGB-GR3 Grade 3 (5 Levels, M-Q) • 300 Books (6-Packs of 50 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $1,959.95 JGB-GR4 Grade 4 (5 Levels, P-T) • 300 Books (6-Packs of 50 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $2,019.95 JGB-GR5 Grade 5 (5 Levels, S-W) • 300 Books (6-Packs of 50 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $2,019.95 JGB-GR6 Grade 6 (5 Levels, V-Z) • 300 Books (6-Packs of 50 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $2,019.95 Guided Reading Level Collections JGB-LEV-A Level A • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-B Level B • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-C Level C • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-D Level D • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-E Level E • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-F Level F • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-G Level G • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $369.95 JGB-LEV-H Level H • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $389.95 JGB-LEV-I Level I • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $379.95 JGB-LEV-J Level J • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $389.95 JGB-LEV-K Level K • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $389.95 JGB-LEV-L Level L • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $389.95 JGB-LEV-M Level M • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $389.95 JGB-LEV-N Level N • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $389.95 JGB-LEV-O Level O • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-P Level P • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-Q Level Q • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-R Level R • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-S Level S • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-T Level T • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-U Level U • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-V Level V • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-W Level W • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-X Level X • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-Y Level Y • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 JGB-LEV-Z Level Z • 60 books (6-packs of 10 titles + Using Powerful Questions) $419.95 Additional Copies JTR-GR Using Powerful Questions to Enhance Guided Reading $24.95 All titles have been leveled according to the guidelines recommended by Fountas and Pinnell.

For a complete listing of the titles in each level, visit greatbooks.org.

greatbooks.org • 800.222.5870 9 Nonfiction Inquiry

Why Choose Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry? Our Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry classroom materials help teachers and students extend inquiry- based learning to informational texts that are specifically designed for evaluative questioning. Junior Great Books Nonfiction Inquiry is most effective when used as a companion to our core fiction materials for grades 3–5 but can also be used as a standalone product. • Students follow our inquiry-based sequence of Michael Jordan. CREDIT: Cliff/Flickr activities for each text. • Students read for understanding, ask questions, reread and take notes, form ideas about an issue in the text, and support those ideas with evidence. • For schools that use our Junior Great Books fiction materials, each text is aligned with a specific Junior Great Books story, and extension prompts allow students to compare and contrast the stories and nonfiction texts in writing or discussion.

Teacher’s Guides include: • Step-by-step instructions for each activity with point-of-need teacher support • Unit overviews that summarize activities and show all activity prompts • Differentiation options and suggestions for pair/group learning One of Thomas Heatherwick’s creations, the Rolling Bridge. CREDIT: Cristina Bejarano/Flickr • A resource section that includes vocabulary activities, assessment tools, and student reflection forms

Student Logs include: • A student introduction explaining what to expect from the program • The full nonfiction text for each unit • Unit-specific activity prompts to help students practice close reading, critical thinking, and writing • Check Your Understanding quizzes to gauge reading comprehension • A writing checklist to help students prepare essay drafts

Young inventors from Nigeria with urine-powered generator. CREDIT: Erik Hersman/Flickr

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JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS OOk S JUNIOR GREAT BOOKS G REAT B JuniOR Nonfiction Nonfiction Nonfiction units are aligned with OOk S® G REAT B JuniOR Nonfiction Inquiry Nonfiction 3 Inquiry 4 5 Inquiry 3 Inquiry grade-appropriate national benchmarks T LOG STu DEn

Unit 1 Can Robots Be People Too? Unit 2 in science and social studies, as well as Small Acts Make a Big Difference Unit 3 Becoming Francisco X. Alarcón

Unit 4 Egg-cellent Bird Parents national standards for reading, writing, Unit 5 Weather Watchers

Unit 6 Don’t Swallow That Spider!

Unit 7 Children of the Oregon Trail listening, and speaking. Unit 8 Grunts, Flops, and Dives!

Unit 9 Burger with a Side of Shoe Polish

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The Stranger Christmas Eve Crevasse Jennifer Owings Dewey Rose Wilder Lane UNIT 7 PAGES 59–66 My Time on the Mount (continued) including biography, memoir,Bad Mistakes on andDisobeying the Dogs My Time on the Mount by LeRoy (Satchel) Paige, as told to David Lipman Aconcagua Gary Paulsen Mark Pfetzer and Jack Galvin The famous African-American baseball player Satchel Students read the selection and: Students reread the selection and: Students write a letter describing a personal experience Paige recalls his time at the Mount Meigs reform school • Note wherever something unexpected happens • Note where Satchel learns something that could have been a bad experience but instead in Alabama. • Write about the part they found most unexpected, • Analyze how the things that Satchel learns help him turned out to be a good experience. informational text. These texts were and explain what they expected to happen instead “become a man” uring BEST WORK ASSESSMENT at Conduct an assessment of students’ best Activity 3 (Create) assignment from Units 5–7 using pages 67–68 of the Fe Amazing People student book. You can also use the blackline masters on pages 32–33 of this teacher’s guide. chosen for their cross-curricular Astonishing Events applicability and their ability to Remarkable Ideas

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Mary La Chapelle Level 3 Gryphon Charles Baxter Fellowship Franz Kafka Poetry Approximations The Hand Mona Simpson Mary Ruefle The Bet Anton Chekhov The Song of The Secret Lion Alberto Álvaro Ríos Wandering Aengus Star Food Ethan Canin William Butler Yeats Differentiating First Reading After doing a few Great Books Roundtable units, Mr. Fisher has noticed that some of his students struggle to make notes during the first reading, whereas (After reading to “. . . the old Greeks and Romans” Child on Top others do it comfortably. He uses both the Support and Challenge box [p. 33] .) Before we continue, let’s share some of the suggestions that appear in the Stage 1 First Reading card (card questions we have so far. Mr. Fisher includes students’ notes in his students’ diverse learning needs. Mr. Fisher begins by writing the following A Visit of Charity Eudora Welty 12 ) to address Kurt: I want to know why the narrator tells us why Adolf the modeling process (Support). prompts on the board: Hitler wasn’t mentioned in her class. Mr. Fisher: Okay, make sure you put a question mark next to that. of a Greenhouse = James: I put a question mark next to the second paragraph on ? You have a question about the story. ✓ page 32. I wonder why the doctors kept Renate for over MR. Fishe = You agree with something. R ✗ a year. The Destructors = You disagree with something. Mr. Fisher: Did anyone mark a place where they agreed or Graham Greene Theodore Roethke disagreed with something? Mary: I did. I marked on page 31 that I agreed with Frau Mr. Fisher: As you read silently along with me, mark places where Brocker. I don’t think the midwife is Renate’s real mother either. you have a question. Some of us have talked about Mr. Fisher encourages some students Mr. Fisher: marking where we agree or disagree with something or to mark a wider range of reactions in Let’s continue reading and marking questions. If you’ve someone, so if you want to, try doing that as well. addition to questions (Challenge). been marking where you agree or disagree with Mr. Fisher prompts students using the How It Feels to Be Colored Me something, continue with that, too. multiple-note option to share their reactions to the text (Challenge). The Parakeets Mr. Fisher reads the first two pages of “Props for Faith” aloud with the following interjections. Mr. Fisher knows that to keep the students engaged in the reading, it is important to refrain from interrupting the flow of the story and to stop only when students seem to struggle with comprehension. Mr. Fisher: (After reading to “. . . under white knee socks that He reads without interjecting until further into the story, when he notices that no one is marking Zora Neale Hurston never stayed up” [p. 31]. questions during a passage rich with interpretive issues (the highlighted passage on pages 33–34). ) Several parts of this passage Alberto Blanco appeal to my sense of sight and help me imagine what Mr. Fisher models visualizing, a gypsies look like. I can see their dark hair and their strategy he wants to reinforce with his Mr. Fisher: ( brown hands loaded with rings. Did anything in this struggling readers (Support). After reading to “But I didn’t mean it . . .” [p. 34] passage appeal to one of your senses? anyone mark a question on this page? ( .) Did Let’s read it again. ( No response .) Morris: Rereads from “‘Why not?’ I shouted I can see Renate’s dark, frizzy hair, black eyes, and . . . ” to “ . . . I couldn’t bring out one word” [pp. Mr. Fisher pauses to reread a difficult skinny legs. 33–34].) passage that students have not marked I Have a Dream Mr. Fisher: What makes you think Renate’s legs are skinny? (Support). I have a question. Why does “something hot and sad Mending Wall Morris: The part about her knee socks. The narrator says they and mean” rise inside Hanna when she thinks about Mr. Fisher shows students how a “never stayed up.” That detail helps me see Renate Renate playing with Sybille? ( passage contains opportunities for Continues reading to the pretty clearly. end of the page.) Did anyone mark a question this time? questions by briefly modeling the Mr. Fisher: Okay. As we read, you may find it helpful to visualize, or Simon: I marked next to “Her limp seemed worse than ever questioning process and having Martin Luther King Jr. students follow suit (Support). Robert Frost picture in your mind, what is going on in the story. Try before” because I wonder why Hanna thinks this. ( to imagine sights, smells, sounds, and feelings. more students share their questions A few .) ( After reading to “. . . had lived half of his five years Mr. Fisher: Did anyone who has been marking agreement or without a father” [p. 32] disagreement note anything in this passage? .) I’m not sure who this Trudi Mr. Fisher encourages students who Montag person is. I’ll put a question mark here and read Mr. Fisher models how to make Zora: I put a check mark next to the part where Renate’s face are marking the higher-level prompt to on to see if she is important to the story. notes about questions while reading is “red, then ashen.” I agree with how Renate reacts to contribute their ideas (Challenge). (Support). Hanna. I think I would act that way, too. ( Another The Fish 24 Great Books Roundtable Road Map • Level 2 student explains a mark of agreement or disagreement Mr. Fisher: All right, let’s read on. .)

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