Reading Eggs ~ Review

Reading Eggs is an online reading program for ages 2-13. The Reading Eggs and Mathseeds programs offer Workbooks to complement their programs. My daughter has been working through the 200 Essential Reading Skills for Fifth Grade. 

Reading Eggs not only helps younger children learn to read but it helps upper elementary age students strengthen their reading skills, reading comprehension, spelling, and grammar. 

The Reading Egg Online and App engage children 2-13 in reading. Before your child starts their initial work in the Reading Egg program they have a Placement Test that the student can take. I opted for my daughter to not take this test since she is older and I was confident in where she was at reading wise. For younger students or for the parent that is unsure of where their child is at in their reading the Placement Test is an excellent place to start. The 5th grade dashboard is filled with a wide range of engaging activities. In the Stadium students play games involving vocabulary, spelling, and grammar usage. In the library students can read books and then answer comprehension question to earn eggs. In the English section their are videos and then 20 questions. The Target section challenges your child to achieve goals. The My Lesson section is the daily lesson that covers all topics including spelling, grammar, reading comprehension, reading skills, etc. The program keeps track of your child's overall progress and rewards them with trophies. Overall, the Reading Egg online program is really quite impressive. 

The 200 Essential Reading Skills for Fifth Grade workbook has 36 weeks of lessons for students to complete. The 5th grade workbook focuses on comprehension, spelling, and grammar. The workbook includes a Year Planner shows all of the concepts that the student will be covering in each week over the course of the 36 weeks. This two-page scope and sequence is very helpful.  

Each week is broken down into a 5 day week. In just 15 minutes a day your child will begin to improve their reading and comprehension skills. Here is the weekly breakdown:

Day 1 Comprehension lesson ~ Annotate text and answer questions

Day 2 Comprehension lesson ~ Annotate text and work on short answer questions 

Day 3 Spelling lesson ~ introduces a rule or spelling pattern, 20 spelling words 

Day 4 Spelling lesson ~ proof reading skills, 10 challenging words

Day 5 Grammar lesson ~ language instruction, defining grammatical terms

Every 9 weeks there are Comprehensive Reviews to reinforce learning. 

The workbook is colorful and definitely appealing to students. Each days lessons are short enough that students are not overwhelmed or put off, but still long enough that they are learning and progressing in their reading skills and comprehension. The variety of content is constantly changing and being recycled so that students are not repeating the same activities over and over again. 

Some of the activities included in the lesson are:

• hidden words
• complete the sentence
• short answer
• word endings
• annotating
• multiple choice
• highlighting
• matching
• missing letters
• underline spelling mistake and write word correctly 
• alphabetical order
• word clues
• crossword
• fill in the blank
• write the spelling words
• summarize passage
• rearrange letters to make a word

My daughter has actually really enjoyed working through this workbook. We have stopped her current spelling curricula and are going to use this workbook in its place. I really like what she has been getting from this program. I like how the workbook and the online Reading Egg program complement one another.

I would highly recommend Reading Eggs to others looking for a fun and engaging way to help students phonics, reading and comprehension skills. Reading Eggs also has a companion called Mathseeds that is for students ages 3-9. Workbooks are also available for the Mathseeds program. 

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