Great Teaching. Great Books. Great Results.

“I use Junior Great Books to expose students to radical and new ways of thinking and learning.”
Dee Carroll, Johnson Middle School, Melbourne, Florida

The Junior Great Books^® program is a research-based K-12 reading program that provides a superb framework for teaching reading comprehension, critical thinking, and writing, all in the context of students sharing their ideas about great literature.

Junior Great Books is proven to help students develop essential literacy skills—reading carefully, thinking critically, listening intently, and speaking and writing persuasively. By participating in Shared Inquiry discussion, Great Books students learn to read for meaning and to support their own interpretation of the text.

Watch a class of third-grade students at work with "Ooka and the Honest Thief," a Japanese folktale in the new Junior Great Books (Series 3, Book One).