Shared Reading
Engage students and build critical reading skills with Shared Reading
Take a look inside Shared Reading!
Advance readers’ comprehension, fluency, and foundational skills in an engaging, interactive whole-group literacy experience. 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.
What are the benefits of Shared Reading?
Shared Reading...
- Provides enjoyable, successful experiences with print for all students
- Promotes the development of all aspects of the reading process
- Offers another opportunity for students to practice and reinforce phonics and foundational skills learning
- Builds language skills and enhances vocabulary
- Provides opportunities to engage in expressive, meaningful, fluent reading
- Develops understanding of various types of texts, formats, and language structures
- Creates a community of readers
- Provides an extremely engaging whole-group reading experience for students
Shared Reading, Second Edition
Grades: K-3
Transform your classroom and empower your students with Shared Reading, Second Edition
Impactful Whole-Group Literacy Instruction
with Shared Reading, Second Edition
New in the Second Edition:
- A 180-day plan for literacy success
- 15 impactful teaching routines for familiar teaching and learning
- Opportunities for foundational skills learning and application in every lesson
- Student-facing eBook and audio book libraries with Shared Reading Digital
- Professional development video collection
School Price, Per Collection
| Grade Level | Price | Components |
|---|---|---|
| Grade K | $3,999 | 65 original titles (1 big book and 6 small copies per title), Lesson Folders, The Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide, Collection Guide, and a one-year annual subscription to FPL Shared Reading Digital. |
| Grade 1 | $3,999 | 65 original titles (1 big book and 6 small copies per title), Lesson Folders, The Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide, Collection Guide, and a one-year annual subscription to FPL Shared Reading Digital. |
| Grade 2 | $1,899 | 30 original titles (1 big book and 6 small copies per title), Lesson Folders, The Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide, Collection Guide, and a one-year annual subscription to FPL Shared Reading Digital. |
| Grade 3 | $1,899 | 30 original titles (1 big book and 6 small copies per title), Lesson Folders, The Comprehensive Phonics, Spelling, and Word Study Guide, Collection Guide, and a one-year annual subscription to FPL Shared Reading Digital. |
Current Shared Reading, First Edition customers:
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Shared Reading First Edition
Grades: PreK-4
Colección de Lectura compartida, First Edition
Grades: K-2
The same powerful Shared Reading resource -- in Spanish! Featuring original texts by Spanish speaking authors and illustrators, students will be overjoyed with these transadapted and original stories.
What do Educators Say About Shared Reading?
"Having a program that is mapped out and has the book and all the pieces at this stage is such a beautiful thing because we [elementary teachers] have so much to plan".
"Teachers felt like it made their lives easier."
"Children's spelling, looking at word meaning and decoding, it's just been phenomenal what they are picking up on."
"Students are upset if you don't finish the book."
"The Shared Reading Books are my favorite, and I like the activities that go with it. I feel like they're very differentiated. Those books are my favorite part of the whole kit."
Resources for Shared Reading
From Our Blog...
What are the Benefits of Shared Reading for Primary and Intermediate Students?
Shared reading sparks joy, inquiry, student talk and agency. Shared reading is more engaging and impactful than any other whole-class literacy instruction.
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During whole-group literacy, it’s important that students are interested in the books, discussions, and teachings for the most impactful, engaging literacy instruction.
3 Ways to Ensure Foundational Skills Stick for Students
Foundational literacy skills are the building blocks of a student's journey towards becoming proficient readers and writers.