ABC Reading Eggs was created and designed for 3-7 year olds. It focuses on teaching emergent and early reading skills. It can take a child from being a complete non-reader all the way through to reading early level, grade 2 texts.
ABC Reading Eggspress builds reading and comprehension skills for children in grades 2-7 (7-13 year olds).
The ABC Reading Eggspress website offers a huge range of highly engaging resources that include reading comprehension lessons, motivational games and e-books. ABC Reading Eggspress is a unique learning environment; created to encourage students to keep reading and learning.
The ABC Reading Eggs and Reading Eggspress programs have been developed by a highly experienced team of teachers, educational writers, animators and web developers. Reading Eggs focuses on an early reading curriculum of skills and strategies which are essential for sustained, reading success. ABC Reading Eggspress is for olders students in grades 2 – 6 and focuses on building reading comprehension and other English language skills. Both websites completely support what children learn at school and will help to improve your child’s results.
Yes, although it depends on the reading ability of your child. ABC Reading Eggspress was created for children who can read independently. If your child can read short chapter books/has completed all the ABC Reading Eggs maps, then they should be able to successfully use the ABC Reading Eggspress website.
Blake Publishing and 3P Learning have joined forces with ABC Commercial to bring the fantastic Reading Eggs program to Australians via the ABC Connect brand. The ABC, like the Blake and 3P learning teams, are committed to producing and distributing innovative, high quality content that its audiences and customers find educational and enjoyable.
To purchase an ABC Reading Eggs subscription online you need to login to your ABC Reading Eggs account. The purchase ABC 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 ABC 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.
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.
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.
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.
ABC 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.
Yes, ABC 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. ABC 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 ABC Reading Eggs games and activities are fun to do, so children will enjoy repeating them.
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 personalised 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 ABC 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.
Yes, the ABC Reading Eggs book packs are a great way to access the program. Each ABC 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.
ABC Reading Eggs Activity books are another great ABC Reading Eggs resource. These books include a matching writing lesson for every reading lesson. These full colour 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 ABC 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 ABC 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.
After every lesson, each child earns enough golden eggs that they can spend at 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 realise 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 ABC Reading Eggs World allows your child to explore new destinations including Puzzle Park, Reggie’s Shop, The Story Factory, The Skills Bank and their very own ABC Reading Eggs house. The New World is an extension of the ABC Reading Eggs program, designed for 6-8 year olds who are starting to stretch their reading wings.
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.
Yes, The ABC Reading Eggs team have 40 new lessons in the pipeline that will be released over the next 9 months.
After each lesson children are rewarded with a great new ABC 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 ABC 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.
ABC Reading Eggspress is aimed at children aged between 7-13 years.
ABC Reading Eggspress currently meets the needs of students up to Year 7 of school.
ABC Reading Eggspress builds reading and comprehension skills. The Comprehension Gym offers interactive lessons that model and teach children a variety of strategies to interpret texts. The comprehensive online library provides children with a wealth of fiction and nonfiction titles to read and explore. Each title has an online quiz for the child to complete, and there are also opportunities to rate each book. The Stadium allows children to compete in real time against other players and tests skills in one of four areas — spelling, vocabulary, usage and grammar.
Comprehension is the ability to read a text, engage with it and extract meaning. It is one of the key components in the reading process. Sometimes children might appear to be confident readers and may read a passage aloud with fluency and expression in their voice. However, when questioned, they may not fully understand what the text was about. There are several different strategies that assist children to engage fully with a text. These strategies need to be taught carefully and in context. ABC Reading Eggspress models and teaches children these strategies across a range of texts and reading levels.
The ABC Reading Eggspress Comprehension Gym can help children who have difficulty interpreting and understanding text. It offers a variety of interactive lessons to teach important comprehension strategies. Children firstly engage in pre-reading activities that model and teach a variety of strategies. This is followed by a reading passage and a set of questions that assess a child’s factual, inferential and critical understandings of the text.
Pre-reading activities in the Comprehension Gym are designed to teach children a variety of ways to comprehend text. Check that your child is working at the lowest level, level 2.1, if they are finding the texts too difficult. The Comprehension Gym placement test is a good way to ensure your child is working at the appropriate level.
The books in the ABC Reading Eggspress Library all have a reading age level. You can choose books at your child’s reading age by changing the reading age filter that sits above the bookcase when you are looking for books. For learning purposes a book should ideally be at an ‘instructional’ level which means it is not too easy or too difficult for a child to read independently. Books in the library start with a reading age of 6 years. If your child has a reading age less than 6 years they may need to build more reading skills using the ABC Reading Eggs website.
h2(#q32).Can my child just read something without having to take a test about it?
Yes. They can read any book in the library purely for pleasure. They do not have to complete the short quiz.
ABC Reading Eggspress books are also published by Blake Education as real books that are commonly used in schools. Blake Education has been publishing high-quality educational resources for teachers and students for more than 15 years. All of our books are written and illustrated by talented authors and illustrators about subjects that are suitable for children.
The Comprehension Gym includes a 16-question quiz at the end of each lesson. Every time your child completes the quiz you will receive a detailed report. This will provide you with much needed information about your child’s progress in using a wide range of comprehension strategies. You will also be able to see how many library books your child has read, the date read, the type of book, word length and their quiz scores. These results will provide you with a clear overview of the progress your child is making, their reading age and quiz average.
ABC Reading Eggspress is full of rewards and has several motivational elements that will encourage children to continue to read and learn. Children collect golden eggs and trading cards; play games; dress their avatar and furnish their own apartment.
Research has shown that motivation is a key element in encouraging children to keep learning. Most children enjoy playing games and we have included them as one of the rewards. Many of the games have an educational element and children must pay-to-play the games. This means they need to earn golden eggs by doing solid learning activities before they can play any of the games.
Targets are one of the ways that we encourage children to fully explore the ABC Reading Eggspress world. It’s a big website and sometimes children can get stuck using only some parts of the site. Early Targets introduce the many features of the website while later ones reward concentrated effort. Hitting each Achievement Target provides a goal, something to aim for and is a fun way to reward learning.
Yes. The questions that appear in the Comprehension Gym and the Stadium have been designed to help students improve their test-taking skills. We have included question types similar to those found in the NAPLAN Reading and Language Conventions tests. The ABC Reading Eggspress website covers comprehension, word usage, vocabulary, spelling and grammar skills.
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 ABC Reading Eggs.
- When the graphics distort or skip
- When the lesson is stuck.
- When the progress made is not recognised and the lesson has to be repeated.
When you register, ABC 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 ABC Reading Eggs account password.
A map under construction is not accessible. The Reading Eggs team has new lessons in the pipeline that will be released when they are completed.
In order to use the live games in the Stadium you may have to open port 9339 in your firewall. Consult your firewall documentation for details on how to do this.
You can contact our friendly customer service staff on 02 8585 4020 or email us at info@readingeggs.com
Schools can contact our educational team on 1300 850 331 or email us at ReadingEggs@3plearning.com.au
To make the experience on Reading Eggs most enjoyable, you will need, at a minimum:
- a high speed Broadband Internet service
- Windows: Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome
- Mac: Safari 4.0, Firefox 3.6, Google Chrome
- Screen Resolution: 1024×768
- Flash Player: 10.1
- A working sound card.
- Currently Reading Eggs is not supported on Apple’s iOS due to a lack of Flash support.