ABC Reading Eggs is an online reading program that makes learning essential reading skills a fun and motivating experience for 4 – 8 year olds.The program has many features that support your core literacy teaching and get your students successfully started on their journey to becoming pro?cient readers. The diagnostic test and student management tools enable teachers to place students at different reading levels within the program.
The program begins at an absolute emergent reading level, focusing on letter sounds, first sight words and reading simple sentences. The site is simple to navigate and students are motivated to complete lessons. Use the colourful lessons with groups or the whole class on the IWB or computer as lesson starters that really focus your students’ attention.
Students can take a placement test to ensure that they are working at a level that matches their reading ability, or teachers can move students to an appropriate reading level. The program can ensure all your students make progress, as it covers a wide range of phonic skills, essential sight words and comprehension skills in a highly motivating way. Reluctant readers love ABC Reading Eggs.
Many of the new features are excellent for Year 2 students. Make the Story Factory part of your writing program; with its weekly contests, it’s a great way to get kids writing. The new Skills Bank focuses on Spelling, Grammar and Vocabulary development. Even your struggling readers can make real progress at ABC Reading Eggs.
Many struggling and reluctant readers really enjoy working on a computer as it allows them to progress at their own pace. The ABC Reading Eggs lessons provide plenty of practice in developing key reading skills and the interesting activities can be repeated as often as needed.
ABC Reading Eggs is used in many special needs classrooms. The bright graphics and repetition work well with a wide range of students. The songs and fun activities make ABC Reading Eggs a rewarding activity, where students experience success and learn key reading skills.
ABC Reading Eggs lessons are made up of a wide variety of interesting activities but each lesson has a consistent format. The first 1 or 2 lesson parts are interactive animations led by our host/teacher, Sam the Ant, or another character. Sam, Jaz, Tom or Meg model the new concept and then ask the child to complete an activity. The student needs to get seven correct responses to progress to the next part of the lesson. Lessons introduce new concepts using constant interactivity which keeps children on-task as they practise and build confidence. New skills are reinforced using carefully designed activities that are highly motivating and promote reading success.
The dot-to-dot activities are a fun way for children to learn correct letter formation. As with drawing the letter shape in the air, the physical act of doing this activity boosts student’s memory for the shape of each letter. It also helps counting skills!
Activity 4, The Letter Grid builds recognition of both capital and lower case letters. In later lessons, this part is replaced by sight word, phonics or spelling activities.
This vocabulary building activity ensures that children know the words used in the reading books.
Part 6 is an electronic book, with audio support, that children can read online. Printed versions of these books are also available.
The child is rewarded for completing the lesson with a new creature that hatches and becomes part of their online collection. Each ABC Reading Eggs critter links to the content of the lesson, ie Catty Cake is the Reading Eggs critter for the letter Cc. In the My Critters section of the website a matching card shows that Catty Cake lives on a cosy cushion, is friends with a cow and a camel, eats corn and carrots and loves to cook cakes.
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