Can a lay person read the "Collect" together with the priest?

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Yes. Because, the priest in our parish says “Kindly bow your heads, and let “us” pray.” I’m kind of confused. Misalettes are available with the “Collect” in it.
 
He leads, vocally; we pray along, silently.

Edit to add: Properly, there should also be a brief moment of silent prayer for everyone between “Let us pray” and the first words of the Collect.
 
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From the Roman Missal’s Order of Mass, n. 9: “Then the Priest, with hands extended, says the Collect prayer, at the end of which the people acclaim:
Amen.”

[Excerpt from the English translation of the Roman Missal, © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.]
 
The convention is that the collect, the prayer over the offerings and the postcommunion prayer are said by the principal celebrant with the rest of the sanctuary staff and congregation saying “Amen” to show their participation in the prayer. If there is some overwhelming necessity, say the priest has lost his voice, someone else can read the prayers aloud with the priest saying them quietly.
 
The priest’s words, ‘Let us pray’, are not to be taken in a literal sense. He does not mean let us all say this together. The Collect is one of the proper orations at Mass said solely by the celebrant. If the Mass is concelebrated only the principal concelebrant says the collect. Everybody else listens to the prayer in silence and then respond ‘Amen’ at the end.
 
The Eucharistic Prayers are also in many Missalettes. The faithful may read along, silently.
 
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