Reading Eggs, The Trusted Reading Program for Children Aged 2–13

Learning is what our brains do naturally, every waking minute, and that learning began before we were even born.

Among the things we learnt whilst still in the womb, was to recognise smells and music as well as the sound of our native tongue and our mother’s voice.

Children learn new skills with a potent mix of enthusiasm and attention enabling them to absorb skills and knowledge with incredible speed.

Stimulating your child’s brain cells by reading to them from story books, teaching them to recite nursery rhymes and encouraging their creative skills with crayons, paints and pens on paper, strengthens the vital connections in their brain.

As they absorb new skills in their early years, the brain forms connections which form the basis of your child’s future learning.

Every child develops in their own unique way, but many children are hungry to learn how to read by the age of 36 months to 4 years old, particularly when they have older siblings who are reading and writing at school.

Learning to read at home

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.

How can I help my young child learn to read?

With the right tools, knowledge, and techniques, helping a child with reading skills can be a most rewarding experience.

Join over 10 million parents, in 169 countries who have used Reading Eggs

Reading Eggs is an online reading program for ages two to thirteeen.

It has been developed by a team of highly experienced educators, animators and web developers and launched in 2008. Today, the program has been used by over 20 million children in around the world.

Tell me more about Reading Eggs

Reading Eggs is a unique online world where children learn to read from ages 2-13.

Reading Eggs supports each child’s learning by offering individual, one-on-one lessons that allow children to progress at their own pace. Children love the more than 1,000 activities, games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning with Reading Eggs.

Learning to read can be easy and fun!

Reading Eggs makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids, with great online reading games and activities.

And it really works! Click here to visit the Reading Eggs website to learn this phonics reading program

Children love the games, songs, golden eggs and other rewards which, along with feeling proud of their reading, really motivate children to keep exploring and learning.

Your child can learn to read right now.

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The science behind learning to read

The reason why over 91% of parents report a noticeable improvement in their child’s reading skills after using Reading Eggs is because the program is based on solid scientific research. Using the five essential keys to reading success, the program unlocks all aspects of learning to read for your child, focusing on a core curriculum of phonics and phonemic awareness, sight words, vocabulary, comprehension, and reading for meaning.

From the very first lesson, children are motivated and excited to learn. And the journey continues over hundreds of online reading lessons and thousands of wonderful e-books, guiding and motivating your child at every step of the way.

The five essential keys to reading success

1. Phonemic awareness

The ability to hear and manipulate the different sounds in words.

Children develop phonemic awareness by learning about sounds (phonemes), syllables and words. Reading Eggs teaches phonemic awareness using a sequential series of skill-building activities that increase sound awareness.

From the earliest lessons in Reading Eggs, your child will learn to recognise rhyme, match letters and sounds, and listen to how sounds work to make words.

2. Phonics

Recognising the connection between letters and the sounds they make.

Phonics is the process of mapping the sounds in words to written letters. This is a very important reading skill that all children need, and features constantly throughout the Reading Eggs program.

Your child will learn how to decode words into sounds and encode sounds into words when they write and spell. This all happens within a wide range of activities that feel like games, to keep your child interested and engaged as they practise. Each lesson ends with a book matched to your child’s current ability, which lets them enjoy the thrill of reading on their own.

3. Vocabulary

Understanding the meaning of words, their definitions, and their context.

Having an ever increasing vocabulary is a fundamental part of academic success. The more words we know, the better we are at reading and understanding the texts that we read.

Reading Eggs increases the number of words your child understands and uses as part of their working vocabulary. Your child will be introduced to new words throughout the Reading Eggs lessons with visual supports to provide context and boost retention levels.

4. Reading Comprehension

Understand the meaning of text – both in story books and information books.

Great readers are involved in the stories they read. They imagine the characters and the adventures they have. They think about what is happening and they share the emotional journey of the book’s characters.

In nonfiction books, great readers gain new information, increase their vocabulary and link what they read with other sources of information to deepen their levels of understanding of new topics and concepts. This all shows that the reader has a full and rich comprehension of the texts they read. This is a complex skill that requires time and practice to develop fully.

Reading Eggs, Free 30 day trial, how to help your child learn to read

To build active reading comprehension skills, Reading Eggs uses activities that scaffold your child’s understanding with a wide range of pre-reading activities to ignite their thinking. They will progress from learning words and their meanings to reading for meaning, moving from learning to read to reading to learn.

5. Fluency

The ability to read aloud with speed, understanding and accuracy.

Many skills build reading fluency. These include good phonic decoding skills, an increasing bank of high frequency words recognised at sight, and the amount of time children spend reading books at an appropriate level. The more children read, the better they are at understanding and reading with speed and accuracy.

Fluency is crucial for children as they build their reading skills. Reading Eggs achieves this through instructional activities that build children’s reading stamina. Just like any exercise program where your fitness increases over time, reading is a skill that needs time, effort and regular practice.

Reading Eggs makes this easy with a comprehensive program that takes your child from being a non-reader, all the way through to reading long chapter books. The depth of the program means that your child can continue their journey for as long as they need. Reading Eggs enables children to learn to read, and then helps them improve by building real, long term reading skills, empowering them to become lifelong readers and learners.

“I just want to say thanks for creating such a brilliant learning tool. My 5-year-old absolutely loves playing [and] learning, and is reading confidently after only two weeks. I’m thrilled and am letting all [of] my friends know about your website. Thank you for making learning to read such a pleasure – for all of us.” – Sharon

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A Trusted Reading Program for Children Aged 2–13

Learning to read is one of the most important skills children can learn. Reading Eggs makes the learning to read journey fun, interactive, and highly rewarding for ages 2–13 – and it’s based on solid scientific research.

You’ve been there to celebrate their first words and first steps. Now see your child learn to read their very first book with Reading Eggs. Start your FREE trial here today!

A comprehensive learn-to-read program

Reading Eggs is a comprehensive learn-to-read program created for children all over the world. To make sure your child gets the most out of the program, Reading Eggs lets you choose different types of English: British English, Australian English or American English. Click here for the steps to change your preferred accent and regional spelling.