Currently, more than 50 of the top 100 YouTube channels feature gameplay, a popularity largely fueled by young audiences. Let's Play videos (often known simply as LPs) typically include gameplay footage accompanied by simultaneous commentary recorded by the player. This article explores three ways English educators might use Let's Play videos and the varied practices of spectatorship and production they involve to inform literacy instruction in the classroom: (1) as texts for analyzing video games; (2) as models for media production; and (3) as starting places for critical conversations about the gaming industry.