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Learn why administrators across the country count on Great Books programs to help both students and teachers achieve new levels of success.
What is Junior Great Books?
New Series 3-5
Reading series by grade (K-12)
Sample units
Objectives and standards
Video highlights
Service learning
What research supports Junior Great Books?
What professional development and other support is available for teachers?
Teacher resources
Great Teacher Awards
Teacher Leaders Club
How can we get started?
A Great Books consultant can help you plan a successful program implementation. Call us at 1-800-222-5870 and ask for the representative for your state.
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Learn why administrators across the country count on Great Books programs to help both students and teachers achieve new levels of success.
- Download "Integrating Junior Great Books into Your Reading/Language Arts Curriculum" to read how easily the program fits with your current curriculum.
- View a slideshow that shows how Junior Great Books increased student achievement on standardized tests in the Washington, D.C. Public Schools and at CS 134 in Bronx, New York.
- Watch a class of third-grade students at work with "Ooka and the Honest Thief," a Japanese folktale in the new Junior Great Series (Series 3, Book One).
- Read the research that proves Junior Great Books works.
- Read about educational organizations that endorse Great Books programs.
- Order a free CD and watch Great Books in the classroom.
- Meet us at an upcoming educational conference.
- Get help to write a proposal for a state literacy project, or a business or philanthropic funder.
- Interested in service learning? Learn more about Readers 2 Leaders, a new Great Books program that gives high school students a "taste of teaching."
- Contact the Great Books Foundation to schedule a planning session at your school.