Over the Summer months, with Eva approaching Year One and Meggy starting in reception, we thought that we would give the girls a head start with their reading, and Reading Eggs was just the resource we needed.
What is it?
Reading Eggs is an online programme which has been created by a highly experienced team of primary school teachers, writers and developers to help children become fluent and proficient readers.
The multi-award winning early learning resource supports your child’s learning to read journey with carefully designed online reading games and activities that are easy to follow, self-paced, and highly engaging for young learners
How does it work?
Home is where so much of your child’s learning takes place. It is where they feel most confident, happy and supported. Studies prove that children who come from homes where reading is prioritised are already way ahead of their peers. The home is the ideal place to lay the building blocks for long term reading and academic success.
Reading Eggs provides your child with an educationally sound and highly enjoyable learn to read programme that is not only fun and effective, but also easy to integrate into your daily routine.
Stepping stone Reading lessons – these lessons are the core of the Reading Eggs programme. Each lesson builds on the previous one to builds skills in the five areas needed to advance as a reader: phonics, sight words, vocabularly, fluency and comprehension. With forty lessons over each of the three lessons, the programme works at a pace that is right for your child.
Storylands – Storylands opens after Reading Eggs lesson 60 and is recommended for children who have begun reading but are yet to graduate to Reading Eggspress. Each lesson has a strong focus on building comprehension skills and expanding student’s vocabulary.
Quizzes – At the end of each Storylands lesson there is a ten question quiz to assess the childs reading and comprehension skills.
Golden Eggs – Students are rewarded for completing quizzes with golden eggs and special items for their house and avatar, as well as opening up extra-special features on their map.
Spelling – The Spelling lessons are the core of the Reading Eggs learn-to-spell programme. The Spelling Vault contains 96 carefully graded spelling lessons. Each spelling lesson focuses on a 12-word spelling list.
Driving tests – This section of the site assesses reading skills with tests that assess high-frequency sight word knowledge, phonic skills and content area vocabulary. Each of the three areas has 15 quizzes and a child only moves onto the next quiz after they get all 20 questions correct.
I was a little unsure at first how Megan would approach the programme. As a non-reader we were literally starting at the beginning and yet she took it with so much enthusiasm and a zest for learning that soon we were flying through the lessons.
The programme is designed in a way to appeal to children and to make learning fun, and the fact that both Megan and Eva got up every day and asked for their Reading Eggs lesson spoke volumes! Both girls loved to see their progress on the map and although there was a little competitiveness, it actually motivated both girls to try harder and really get to grips with their reading.
It doesn’t surprise me that 91% of parents report an improvement in their child’s reading through using Reading Eggs as we too saw a massive improvement in Eva’s reading and Megan really starting to learn her phonics and sound out her words.
We are so impressed with Reading Eggs and would recommend it to all parents. At less than £3.40 a month for a subscription it really is an absolute bargain and considering just how much it has helped the children, I wouldn’t hesitate to continue my subscription
If you would like to try the Reading Eggs programme for a free 5 weeks trial simply click here
I’m sure that you will love it just as much as we do!
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