Virginia Literacy Resource Center

“Junior Great Books positions students as active participants in constructing meaning. They learn to formulate questions, examine multiple perspectives, articulate and defend their interpretations with textual evidence, listen critically to others, and build upon ideas.”

“Junior Great Books is one of my all-time favorite curriculums that really changed the way that I see instruction and has been a pinnacle part of my repertoire of instructional teaching.”

“Junior Great Books is completely what teaching and learning should be about, because you’re getting into the core of the characters, the core of the story. The program just builds passionate readers.”

“It is a natural fit for me to encourage teachers to try Junior Great Books in their classrooms. The program is so flexible—even as the teaching of reading and writing have changed over time, there is a place for Shared Inquiry, whether it be with a whole class or with targeted smaller groups who are hungry for more when it comes to their reading practices.”