Let’s Gather is a read-aloud and shared reading curriculum designed to provide grade-level specific read-aloud plans that highlight thoughtfully curated fiction and nonfiction texts that support a progression of high-level comprehension skills across the year. For each grade, there are more than a dozen detailed read-aloud plans and shared reading templates that you may choose to lean on in your classroom. You’ll discover specific plans for read-aloud and shared reading text sets that are guaranteed to captivate students while boosting vocabulary development, knowledge building, and working with key comprehension skills.
Each grade-level Let’s Gather classroom bundle includes:
- more than a dozen detailed read-aloud and reread-aloud plans that provide regular opportunities for partner talk and whole-class conversations
- templates for shared-reading sessions that can be used and adapted across multiple texts and are especially useful for teaching and reinforcing phonological awareness, concepts about print, word-solving strategies, and fluency
- suggestions for teaching methods that will help to engage students, deepen their comprehension, and support knowledge building
- online resources offer digital access to the guide, anchor charts, learning progressions, shared-reading plan templates, materials to support the teaching in the read-aloud units, and more.
