Expand students' thinking across the year with books that spark discussion and inquiry.
Interactive Read-Aloud promotes the joy of reading, expands children’s vocabulary, and increases their ability to think, talk, and write about texts that fully engage their interest.
The FPC Interactive Read-Aloud Collection is the foundation for literacy instruction. Organized into text sets that reflect a global perspective, it is rich with a diversity of characters, settings, and topics.
- Each text set contains four to six high-quality picture books that represent a variety of authors and illustrators, topics, genres, themes, and text structures. Each set of texts has been carefully curated around a connecting idea, central theme, or study of a particular author, illustrator, or genre. Comprehensive lesson folders support teachers in providing high-quality, cutting-edge lessons that boost, engage, and extend students’ reading, writing, and language skills.
Collection Guide
Brief overview of the components and implementation of the FPC Interactive Read-Aloud Collection.
Trade Books
120 titles per grade PreK-6; 1 copy each
Carefully curated collection of the very best age and grade-appropriate trade books is at the heart of literacy instruction in your classroom
Designed to nurture students’ ability to construct meaning in an interactive, talk-rich context
Organized into text sets to help students make connections among ideas and notice parallels in the craft of writing across multiple texts.
Lesson folders
120 folders per grade PreK-6; 1 copy each
Lesson folders to support teachers in providing high-quality, cutting-edge lessons that boost, engage, and extend students’ reading, writing, and language skills.
Inquiry Overview Cards
25 cards per grade PreK-6; 1 copy each
Inquiry Overview Cards (1 per text set) that feature a brief overview of the text set, opportunities to think across books, an essential question and big ideas to guide thinking and discussion, as well as a menu of projects to encourage exploration and inquiry.
Online Resources
The resources needed for each lesson including lesson folders, record keeping form, text set and book stickers, general resources, and a video library.
The FPC Interactive Read-Aloud Collection is implemented during whole-group instruction. The teacher reads aloud a selected text to children, occasionally pausing for conversation.
The texts are beyond the instructional reading level of most children. The children are listening to the text and viewing the illustrations. The text-based discussion helps children to construct meaning and make connections between books in the text set.
Turning a vision into action requires a carefully laid out plan. You may be asking yourself, “Where do I start?” With a pen in hand, start here, in this action plan, thinking together with colleagues. The 4 steps in this Interactive Action Plan are designed to put you, your students, and your school on the path to literacy success.
For detailed guidance on unpacking your system, setting up your resources, and organizing your classroom, download the FPC Interactive Unpacking and Implementation Plan.
Explore the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum
Proficient readers and writers display recognizable behaviors at every stage of literacy learning. When teachers notice, teach, and support these behaviors, they link assessment to responsive teaching. This indispensable literacy tool identifies the behaviors that demonstrate thinking and understanding within, beyond, and about a text. These behaviors are described as continua of learning across eight instructional contexts.
Explore what the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy Continuum is, what’s included, how it’s implemented, and gain access to samplers, research, webinars, and more.
