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Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection

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The Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Shared Reading Collection

Build a strong early reading foundation with books that engage and excite.

Shared Reading is an enjoyable experience for your classroom community and an important opportunity for children to “step up together” into more challenging texts while also beginning to notice and acquire the processes they need to read texts independently. Now available in English and Spanish.

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, 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, 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:

PDFs of each lesson
Video Library
Shared Reading audiobooks

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.

Shared Reading Resources

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Picture Books for Shared Reading – Choice Literacy

Last week I was reading Shari Frost's article, Whatever Happened To Mrs. Wishy Washy? when I began to think about the Big Books that have been loved in my room over the years. Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm, Greedy Cat, Who's in the Shed? and Oh No! have all been favorites. These texts were staples until I moved to a new school this year. I left behind all of these wonderful and rich resources.

My new school is still accumulating resources. I have been challenged to beg and borrow big books. My colleagues have been very generous sharing their resources, but kids need to have books used in shared reading available to them every day, all year long. Without the big books I am used to, I have been forced to find alternatives.

One way that I have supplemented shared reading resources is by starting a collection of picture books that work well for shared reading. The books have characteristics which include lively language, interesting characters, and illustrations that support text, as well as invite questions and predictions. The repetitive language in these books encourages the students to join in the reading. Though the print isn't as large as I would like it to be, the texts are definitely finding their way into hands and book bins after we read and reread them together.

Here are some picture books we are using for shared reading:

Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett

In this lively and repetitive story, a little girl and her monkey pretend to see many animals. The students' eyes are focused on the little girl as her illustration provides the hint for which animal she and monkey will see next. After reading it, you are bound to have a student ask to move like the animals in the book! I think we walk like penguins and trumpet like elephants weekly.

I Am the King by Leo Timmers

Who is most fit to be king of all animals? Animals find and try on the crown. Each decides that the golden hat suits him best . . . pig, crocodile, and elephant. All declare, "I am the king!" Who really takes the crown?

Where Are You, Little Frog? by Kayleigh Rhatigan

This delightful read has the kids guessing where little frog is on his journey to different parts of the farm. It is a playful, repetitive rhyming book with short text, and fits right into the hands of primary readers.

Hello, Day! by Anita Lobel

What first made this book so wonderful for me is that I have loved Anita Lobel for years. I was thrilled to see her write and illustrate a very simple and elegant pattern book. Second, the pictures are gorgeous and invite the reader to notice patterns in colors and text. Each farm animal starts the day saying good morning. The Goose says, "Honk." The Pig says, "Oink." What they all mean is "Hello, day!" Owl gently ends the day with his "whoo-oo" (good night).

Dinosaur vs. Bedtime by Bob Shea

I love Dinosaur because he reminds me of the three dinosaur-like kiddos I have at home. Dinosaur is in constant competition over something (a pile of leaves, a big slide, a bowl of spaghetti, talking to grown-ups, bath time, tooth brushing, and finally bedtime). At bedtime, his ROARS soon fade into snores. This book has lots of "ROAR" repetition and simple text. My kids love to hear it, read it, and write about their own bedtime battles.

This Is the Way by Charles Fuge

The pictures in this repetitive and rhyming story are bright and bold. There is much to notice as the little boy moves like the animals in this story. The language is rhythmic and strong. The ending of the story lends itself to discussion based upon the intriguing final illustrations.

Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont

Who doesn't love cookie dough? Kanga asks, "Who is eating all the cookie dough?" She questions lion, zebra, llama, cheetah, hippo, and monkey. The kids will keep guessing "who" throughout the story, and the ending is a sweet surprise! This book helps children notice rhyme and the repetition of many high frequency words.

What Will Fat Cat Sit On? By Jan Thomas

This book just makes you laugh! Fat Cat is ready to sit on somebody! What farm animal will it be? The animals begin pointing fingers until someone suggests a chair. Ahhh. Now, what will fat cat have for LUNCH? This book contains simple text in a question answer format that six- and seven-year-olds love and remember.

The Doghouse by Jan Thomas

The funny farm characters are back for more fun while playing a game of kickball. The fun takes a turn when the ball is kicked in the doghouse! Who will venture in to get the ball? The kids love to join in the short repetitive text and make guesses about the drama that happens in the doghouse.

Where Is the Green Sheep? By Mem Fox

This book is filled with all kinds of sheep. You meet scared sheep and brave sheep and many other sheep opposites. The author continues to wonder . . . where is the green sheep? Don't worry, you find him at the end. Shh! You guessed it. He is fast asleep. This book is full of rhyme and repetition, and I have seen it build confidence in young children as they read it again and again.

Book Reading Together - Trends Against the Norm

Posted on Jan 22, 2021 by Alexey Chernyak

(from today's tweekly. ru email)

News flashed: Medium buys French startup Glose, a collaborative reading and discussion platform books.

What's the trend? What used to be considered an individual experience can quite successfully be turned into a joint activity. Don't read or study alone. We are constantly implementing this at Product University.

Who is the main audience? Basically, schoolchildren and students - for the joint assimilation of lectures and textbooks. You can organize your own book club and discuss Brodsky's volume with friends.

What caused the trend? It is clear that the pandemic spurred on. It is no longer possible to go to the next room in the hostel and ask for advice from classmates. And besides, it's more fun than reading alone.

How big is this trend? The service already has more than 1 million users, 25 connected universities. The startup has partnered with 20,000 publishers to sell books directly on its app.

Any decent trend should have anti-trend , here it is - “Digital Detox”: disconnecting from all social networks and the Internet in order to be alone with yourself, prepare for an exam or report, etc. Return to paper books and notes in pencil in the margins.

The general trend of this whole story is to take X and make it joint. Many projects in the field of joint viewing of videos and series: Scener is a social cinema for self-isolation. Bunch, video sharing and web surfing, raised $20M in September. Co-browsing (Surfly, Channel.me) is still developing as a B2B product, but there are already news about collaborative sessions for e-commerce shopping.

How to use it?

Run similar services with us, based on Litres or Bookmate. Reading books together, watching youtube videos and educational videos together, dancing together to music.

Who has had a similar experience? Share your stories in the comments.

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All winter long: 10 cult books to read together

books October 19, 2021

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It has long been known that one should write for children in the same way as for adults, only better. Only such "best" books can become a reliable support in adult life.

Together with the largest book service in Russia and the CIS countries LitRes we have compiled a selection of the most touching, exciting and simply magical works that will unite the whole family in reading.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

Who doesn't love chocolate! For children of all generations, this delicacy is the main competitor of ice cream. But what if you get only one tile a year? Of course, share sweet slices with loved ones. This is exactly what Charlie Bucket does - a modest and intelligent boy from a poor family. And then one day he gets the opportunity to visit the famous chocolate factory and meet its mysterious owner, Mr. Wonka. The hero was awarded this privilege along with several other children: the fat glutton August Gloop, the spoiled rude Veruca Salt, the ambitious chewing gum consumer Violetta Burgard and the zombie television Mike Teavee. Each of them is waiting for an unprecedented surprise at the long-awaited meeting with Wonka.

And using the promo code WORKMAMA on the website of the service, all readers will receive a book as a gift from a special selection, as well as a 25% discount on almost the entire range.

Pollyanna, Eleanor Porter

Immediately after its publication in 1913, the novel by the American writer became a bestseller. For readers around the world, the story of a girl who is ready to share her warmth with everyone around her has become a reminder that even the saddest circumstances are not an obstacle to kindness, and rightfully entered the golden fund of literature for children. So, after the death of her father, little Pollyanna is sent to live with her grumpy aunt. Ahead of the heroine, many trials and meetings await ...

Waffle Heart Maria Parr

After the publication of this debut novel, the young Norwegian writer began to be called the new Astrid Lindgren. Like the heroes of the famous Swede, the young residents of the Shchepka-Matilda Bay live a very rich life. In the life of nine-year-old Trille and his neighbor Lena, there are a lot of events and adventures - funny, touching, dangerous. But dramatic events threaten to destroy the idyll of the Norwegian farm. But friendship, of course, turns out to be stronger than any transient worries!

Northern Lights Philip Pullman

In his Dark Materials tetralogy, the British writer created an entire universe full of magic and mysterious occurrences. Her heroine is the brave 12-year-old orphan Lyra Belacqua. Together with her daemon Panteleimon, she lives in Oxford. The girl's measured life ends when her uncle - the powerful Lord Asriel - sets off on an expedition to the North to find out the origin of the mysterious "dust". However, the mysterious "priests" kidnap Lyra's friend, the servant boy. Now the girl, in order to find a friend, must also go to the North. In this difficult journey, many secrets will be revealed to her.

How to Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell

It's not easy to tame a dragon, of course, but for any self-respecting Viking it's a must. How to do it? To begin with, the young Viking must capture his dragon and pass the test of dragon education. Those who do not pass it will be expelled from the tribe. Hiccup knows this, the son of the leader of the Shaggy Hooligans tribe and the most unmuscular young Viking on Berk Island. So he sets out to catch his dragon with no hope of quick success. But what he definitely did not expect was that he would become a hero.

“The house in which…”, Mariam Petrosyan

This novel, still in manuscript, became the winner of the reader's vote of the Big Book Award, and after publication, it became a real literary event. He instantly gained the status of a cult work, by which readers recognize "their own". Through the hero-protagonist nicknamed the Smoker, readers are immersed in the world of a boarding school for disabled children, where their own laws and rules apply, including cruel tests for beginners. The scene is a mysterious House with more than a century of history, full of secrets and mysticism.

Paddington Bear by Michael Bond

According to legend, the author got the idea to write this story when he saw a lone bear on a shelf in a London shop near Paddington station on Christmas Eve 1956 and bought it as a present for his wife. The first book about a furry hero was written in ten days. Later, several more stories appeared about the adventures of a funny character who arrived from Dense Peru straight to London. Thus arose a new literary symbol of England. The adventures of Paddington have been going on for over fifty years. During this time, it became clear to everyone: where he is, there is never a dull moment.

Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynn Jones

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The Chronicles of Narnia Series, Clive Staples Lewis

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