Reading Eggs is designed for 4-8 year olds who want to learn to read. The program begins at an absolute beginner level, so children need no prior knowledge to start. Children can learn to read using this program.
The Reading Eggs program has been developed by a highly experienced team of teachers, educational writers, animators and web developers. It focuses on a core reading curriculum of skills and strategies which are essential for sustained, reading success. It completely supports what children learn at school and will help to improve your child’s results.
Yes, Reading Eggs starts at the beginning and teaches every skill your child needs to learn to read. Children as young as three can use the program. With younger children, it’s best for lessons to be done more than once as young children love repetition and replaying lessons will really support their learning. Reading eggs lessons can be replayed as often as you like.
Some children don’t enjoy reading because of early failures, while other children struggle to retain the many skills and concepts needed to become successful readers. Working on the computer is a great way for children to build skills. The computer never judges them. They can progress at their own rate and if they are having problems, lessons can be repeated as many times as they want. The program has been successful with children with learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorder and other struggling readers.
For children with reading difficulties, repetition is one of the keys to success and the Reading Eggs games and activities are fun to do, so children will enjoy repeating them.
Go to your house and click on the Zoom icon. Now click on the floor of your house where you want to add the item. More buttons will now appear at the bottom of your screen. Click on the + button to add items. If you want to add items to your garden, zoom into your garden first and now add your items.
The program is a sequential series of lessons that starts at a complete beginner’s level. It develops essential reading skills in a progression that will take a non-reader through to a grade 1 reading level. Further levels are presently in production so that the lessons will take readers up to a Year 2 reading level – their 3rd year of school.
At the end of each map, your child will have to complete a quiz. After completion of this quiz you will receive a personalized email, describing your child’s reading progress and the skills and concepts covered. Each learner also has their own web-based Dashboard which displays a brief overview of the reading skills covered and number of books read. Go to the “About” section of Reading Eggs to see an overview of the levels and details of all the phonic skills, sight words and vocabulary covered in the lessons.
You can introduce your child to this exciting experience.
You can witness their joy and wonder and watch their progress in learning to read.
You can cheer their reading achievements and successes.
It’s a wonderful experience to be a part of.
All you need to supply is a computer and the ability to set your child up on it at least two times per week. The program works best on a broadband connection.
Yes, the Reading Eggs book packs are a great way to access the program. Each Reading Eggs book pack comes with 10 reading books and an access code that opens a 14 day subscription to the online program. The book packs also contain a Progress map with stickers. After each lesson, you can add stickers to the map as a reward and to mark progress. This great feature adds to the rewarding experience and improves motivation.
Reading Eggs Activity books are another great Reading Eggs resource. These books include a matching writing lesson for every reading lesson. These full color activity books are an excellent way to reinforce and extend what children are learning online. The link between reading and writing is a strong one. Research shows that the act of writing is an excellent way to reinforce reading and phonic skills.
You only need to be there for the first lesson, to make sure that your child knows their way around and understands what to do. After that, it’s entirely optional, but it can be fun to watch if you have the time.
We have worked hard to make this the best online website for young children. It has everything that children love to do online. The games, the songs, the variety of activities and the many rewards all work together to make learning to read an exciting, fun and enjoyable experience. And young children love learning to read.
The Reading Eggs program has been designed to get children reading as quickly as possible. To do this, we initially need to focus on the sounds and high frequency words that will enable children to read their first simple words and sentences. We want children to learn how letters make words and how these words can make sentences – sentences that they can read. This is why the program does not progress in alphabetical order as Reading Eggs is all about learning the skills and strategies that are important when you are learning to read. Very early on in the program children learn that what they read has meaning and it makes sense. They also experience real success – children read their first story book in lesson 9 – and this is what learning to read is all about, reading books for meaning and enjoyment.
An avatar is an online character that children can make their own
Every child is unique and they can express this by creating their own online character, their avatar. This quirky egg-based character welcomes them back every time they return. This avatar is their very own creation and children can change this character as often as they like.
After each lesson children are rewarded with a great new Reading Eggs critter to add to their zoo. This collection continues to grow, the more reading lessons they complete. Children love collecting and our cute critters are fun to watch and fun to collect. The Reading Eggs critters also have a fun learning to read connection – go to your My critters page and check out each card and you’ll see that the critter cards have information that builds knowledge of the letter or sound that was the focus of the lesson.
After every five or so lessons each child earns enough golden eggs to go to the Reading Eggs game shop. Here they can choose a game to play. As children work through their reading lessons, they are concentrating, working hard and achieving as they learn many new reading skills. We want children to know that we realize that they are working hard in their learning. They deserve a reward for their efforts and sometimes they simply want to play. That’s what these games are for – a fun way to say well done!
The newly created Reading Eggs World allows your child to explore new destinations including Puzzle Park, Reggie’s Shop and their very own Reading Eggs house. It is jam packed full of educational fun, including 32 new brain stretching puzzles! The New World is an extension of the Reading Eggs program, designed for 6-8 year olds who are just starting to stretch their reading wings.
To change an avatar’s appearance, you simply need to log in to your account and navigate to the ‘My Stuff’ tab, from here select ‘My Avatar’. You will be able to select a variety of items in the change room. You have lots of free items to choose from as well as extra accessories you can buy from Reggie’s Shop. To pay for these you will need ‘golden eggs’, which you earn by completing lessons and puzzles. You need to visit the shop and buy these items before you go to the change room.
Skills Bank, Storylands, Listening Area, Non-fiction Press, Story Factory and My Mail are currently under construction, they will be available in the next few months.
Yes, The Reading Eggs team have 40 new lessons in the pipeline that will be released over the next 9 months.
You can contact our friendly customer service staff on 1 877-661-4898 or email us at support@readingeggs.com
To purchase a Reading Eggs subscription online you need to login to your Reading Eggs account. The purchase Reading Eggs button is orange and can be found in the middle of the dashboard page within your Reading Eggs account. If you are logged in and you can not see the orange “Purchase Reading Eggs” button you need to navigate to the dashboard page within your account. If you are in your child’s map you will need to click bye on the left hand side of the map. If you do not have an account you need to click on the register tab on the Reading Eggs home page.
Your child’s progress will be retained when you purchase an online subscription. To retain the progress you need to ensure that you are logged in to your account which has the progress you wish to retain. If you are purchasing over the phone you need to advise the customer service team that you are extending an existing account.
Some users have reported problems with Flash when not using the latest version. If some of the animations stop unexpectedly you may find that updating to the latest version of Flash helps. The latest version of Flash can be downloaded here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Updating adobe flash player will usually resolve the following issues:
- I can not open the next lesson
- I can only see a blank page when I access Reading Eggs.
- When the graphics distort or skip
- When the lesson is stuck.
- When the progress made is not recognized and the lesson has to be repeated.
When you register, Reading Eggs sends an activation email to the email address you supplied. The email may go to your junk mail, so be sure to check all areas of your email inbox. If you have not received the activation email within 15 minutes your registration may not have been successful. Try to register again using a unique login name.
If you have tried to reset your password and you need to reset each time you login you may have the correct password but the wrong username. Your username is detailed in the email which is sent to your email when you reset your Reading Eggs account password.
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