Reading Eggspress is designed for students in grades 2–6. Within this program, students learn a range of comprehension strategies that enable them to access increasingly difficult and challenging literature and nonfiction texts.
 

Features of Reading Eggspress:

• Placement tests to ensure each student is working at their optimal level.
   
• Step-by-step comprehension strategies, such as cause and effect, fact vs. opinion, visualization, making inferences and main idea, are explicitly taught in a logical sequence of 220 lessons. The activities provide step-by-step instructions to clarify new strategies and include short quizzes to check for students' understanding.
   
• Effective comprehension strategies, including 220 comprehension lessons, help students think about and understand what they read. Animated examples are provided to build a wide range of comprehension strategies, which are then practiced repeatedly.
   
• Carefully leveled literature and nonfiction books are incorporated within the lessons, along with pre-reading activities and interactive quizzes.
   
• Vocabulary building is incorporated within each lesson, with a focus on explicitly teaching critical vocabulary words.
   
• Exciting rewards, games and competitions help students stay motivated.

Additional Reading Eggspress features include:

• English Skills: Featuring 216 spelling lessons that teach students to spell while also improving their reading, writing and comprehension skills. Videos, interactive activities, rewards-based games and 432 printable worksheets (2 per lesson) are also included.
   
• The Stadium: A virtual arena where students enhance their spelling, grammar, vocabulary and fluency skills through timed games, with their avatars transforming into athletes. Students are automatically assigned to play at their grade level and each grade features two levels of difficulty. The Stadium hosts four events – Spelling Sprint, Grammar Skating, Vocabulary Pursuit and Freestyle Usage – each offering hundreds of questions to ensure students flex their language muscles in various ways.
   
• The Reading Journal: An interactive and customizable feature seamlessly connected to the Reading Eggspress Library. As students read books from the library and take comprehension quizzes, the books are automatically added to their Reading Journal. This personalized space allows students to customize their entries. Importantly, the Reading Journal entries follow students from grade to grade and year to year, serving as a wonderful way to celebrate and encourage reading for pleasure.

Teacher Tip: Each map in Reading Eggspress revolves around a book theme. Students read a portion of that book in every lesson on the map and then take a comprehension quiz. These books are available in the library. To locate the book, check the Teacher Library section in the teacher console. Consider assigning it to individual students or sharing it in a book collection. This approach allows students to view the book as a cohesive piece of literature and is particularly beneficial for multiple readings, making it excellent practice for struggling readers.