The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection
Engage students and build critical reading skills with Shared Reading
Advance readers’ comprehension, fluency, and foundational skills in an engaging, interactive whole-group literacy experience, available in English (PreK-4) and Spanish (PreK-2). With Shared Reading, readers are immersed in enlarged, high-interest texts that bring excitement and joy to the literacy classroom.
Shared Reading encourages readers to step-up together into more challenging texts. This whole-group reading experience provides many opportunities to read and revisit a text with purpose and intention. Students discuss and make predictions, think about meaning, answer purposeful prompts, and in grades K-3 (Second Edition), practice phonics and foundational skills.
Introducing Shared Reading, Second Edition (K-3)
- NEW guess-free sequence for the school year
- NEW 15 teaching routines for familiar teaching and learning
- NEW opportunities for foundational skills learning and application in every lesson
- NEW FPL Digital: student and teacher facing experiences with audio book libraries, professional development videos, teaching materials, and more.
What is Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading?
The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection is made of up of exquisite texts which include a collection of original big books in grades PreK through 4 in a variety of genres, with accompanying lesson folders.
Six small copies of each book, as well as audiobooks in FPL Digital, are provided for children to revisit during independent reading. Some of the books have special features such as flaps, cutouts, and foldouts to engage and excite children.
Versions
- English language, Second Edition, K-3
- English language, First Edition, PreK, 4
- Spanish language, PreK-2
Who is Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading for?
The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection is for the classroom teacher who wants to expand and refine children’s reading and writing powers in grades PreK–4. This context is implemented during whole-group literacy instruction where the teacher engages students in shared reading using enlarged print books and shared poetry charts and often leads to shared/interactive writing.
What is inside Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading?
Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection Guide
A brief guide that provides an overview of the components and implementation of the FPC Shared Reading Collection.
Shared Reading Books
Original titles, 1 copy of the big book and 6 copies of each accompanying small book.
An exquisite collection of original titles that nurture students’ ability to construct meaning in a supported context so they can enjoy reading and learn critical concepts of how print works.
Shared Reading Lesson Folders
Lesson folders to support teachers in providing high-quality, cutting-edge lessons that boost, engage, and extend students’ reading, writing, and language skills.
FPC Shared Reading Online Resources
The resources needed for each lesson, including:
- Lesson resources
- PDFs of each lesson
- Video Library
- Teacher-facing platform for teaching and prepping
- Student-facing audiobooks and eBooks
How is Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading implemented?
The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection is implemented during whole-group instruction. During shared reading, teacher and children read aloud a large version of an engaging text that is beyond children’s ability to read independently. These texts provide early experiences with print and promote the development of reading processes. These texts also serve as mentor texts.
After the first reading, children take part in multiple, subsequent readings of the text. They also discuss the text and the teacher selects teaching points based on children’s needs.