Reading Eggs is a comprehensive literacy solution that uses evidence-informed teaching practices to find better ways to learn. It uses the five key pillars: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency.

The program provides explicit and systematic instruction that progresses logically, with each lesson building upon and reinforcing concepts from previous lessons.

Reading Eggs minimizes unnecessary cognitive demands. It does this through introducing content in small chunks with scaffolded practice. This helps children build skills and confidence to independently apply new skills.

Understanding the Reading Eggs suite

Reading Eggs provides a suite of programs, all informed by evidence-based research:

• Reading Eggs: Comprehensive early literacy program
   
• Fast Phonics: Systematic synthetic phonics for foundational skills
   
• Reading Eggspress: Develops advanced comprehension, spelling, fluency and vocabulary skills
   
• The Library: Over 4,000 fiction and nonfiction levelled e-books, including 450+ decodable readers.

Each component of the suite is designed to support learners at different stages of their reading journey, providing a complete literacy solution from early reading skills through to advanced comprehension and fluency.

Reading Eggs

Reading Eggs is built on the foundation of best-practice research and evidence-based teaching. It uses short instructional videos balanced with individualized practice opportunities integrating the content and skills knowledge across the five pillars.

Here's how Reading Eggs addresses key components of literacy development:

• Phonological and phonemic awareness:
  • The Reading Eggs Playroom includes over 120 activities focusing on phonological awareness to develop listening skills.
     
• Phonics:
  • Introduces each sound alongside the most common letter and correct pronunciation.
     
• Vocabulary:
  • Introduces content area words with visual support (matching pictures) to provide context and increase word knowledge and retention.
     
• Fluency:
  • Offers a range of strategies to increase reading fluency with modelled fluent reading of all books with opportunities for rereading books.

Fast Phonics

Fast Phonics is an online systematic, synthetic phonics program for emergent and early readers, as well as older students with gaps in their core reading knowledge.

The Fast Phonics program teaches core phonics skills, including letter-sound correspondence, segmenting and blending, syllable manipulation and spelling skills.  

• Systematic synthetic phonics instruction:
  
  
  • Teaches children to identify letter-sound correspondence in short, snappy sessions
     
  • Each "peak" (lesson unit) uses animations to explain reading strategies or introduce letters, phonemes, digraphs, trigraphs or split digraphs
     
  • Activities encourage learners to listen to and identify spoken sounds
     
  • Fast-paced phoneme introduction with 3-4 new sounds in the first weeks
     
  • Students learn to decode unfamiliar words by identifying phonemes, sounding them out and blending the sounds
     
  • Blending and segmenting are practiced from the beginning of the program
     
  • Students learn to listen to words, identify the phonemes they hear (segmenting), and then write the corresponding graphemes to represent the phonemes
     
  • Decodable phonics readers contain words only with phonemes students have been taught, reinforcing learned skills.