What is Reading Eggs?
Fast-track literacy progress with Reading Eggs, the world’s most engaging evidence-based reading program, developed to spark and support a lifelong love of reading.
Used by over 20 million students and implemented in 16,000 schools worldwide, Reading Eggs is proven to visibly boost students’ reading skills in as little as 15 minutes a day.
Choose Reading Eggs to:
Make learning to read easy and fun. Reading Eggs helps students learn phonics and develop early reading skills using highly engaging lessons that are easy to follow. A placement test determines where kids should begin learning and personalised instruction matches their individual abilities for a smooth and enjoyable learning experience.
Motivate students to keep improving. The online sequence of reading lessons, activities and over 3,500 ebooks, combined with consistent rewards help students stay engaged and on task. The Reading Journal provides a highly motivational, interactive tracker of books, chapters and words read.
Use the evidence-based solution. Researched and designed over the course of 25 years by leading educational experts, Reading Eggs employs the best pedagogical practice to cover the five essential components of reading instruction: phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary, supporting core literacy teaching.
Recommended Usage
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. Reading Eggs lessons can be replayed as often as you like.
Educational Impact
reduce teacher workload
reduce attainment gap
build student knowledge
improve attainment
improve teaching efficiency
 Company | Business Name: 3P Learning HQ Location: Australia Founded: 2008 |
| Age Range | 0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13 |
 Features | One‑on‑one LessonInteractive AnimationsAligned To The National CurriculumCertificatesProgress TrackingInteractive ActivitiesPhonics Lessons |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Available OfflineInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android In order to provide the best experience to the millions of users around the world, 3P Learning programs use a variety of IP ranges and domains. If you are accessing via a network, or school-based system, you may need to update your school’s proxy/content filtering systems to allow access to Reading Eggs and Reading Eggspress. |
 Set Up | Quick access available |
 Training | Live OnlineWebinarsDocumentation |
 Support | EmailFAQs/ForumKnowledge BasePhone Support There are lots of tutorials and helpful assists throughout the website. Head to the Help Hub, or access the in-program guides by clicking ‘Need Help’ in the teacher console. |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Parents can create the account. |
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5 out of 5
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Reading Eggs has collected 2 reviews in the past 6 months
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Melissa Sinnott
Assistant Principal Teacher
Lady of Fatima School, Ireland
Used Reading Eggs daily for 1-2 years
Jun 2024
Mostly definitely. It helps when you teach a multi grade class as it has planned progression. Great assessment.
Melissa Sinnott found Reading Eggs:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Preparing worksheets and Assessment”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“this year one of our Special Needs went up in Lexile score just from using reading eggs as independent Work.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“it goes back over lessons students have missed. Teacher can set work for student to complete”
- Significantly improves attainment“Comprehension skills in readxpress”
- Slightly builds student knowledge
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Jun 2024
Reading Eggs is fun and engaging for children. They are learning to read while enjoying a wide range of interactive activities. They love earning eggs and certificates. We have had great feedback from children, parents and staff who are all loving the program. We also have concrete evidence of the effectiveness of the program through our PTE and NGRT data, all of which has shown a marked improvement.
Annabelle found Reading Eggs:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Provides activities to improve children's sight vocabulary, comprehension skills and phonics knowledge. All of these are matched to each child's ability level following the placement test.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“I have had positive comments from staff members and parents on the improvement they have seen in children's reading ability since using Reading Eggs. Our reading data using NGRT and PTE has also shown a notable improvement since launching Reading Eggs in our school.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“We have added Reading Eggs to our reading carousel. It ensures that children who are working independently are using a program that is targeted at the areas they need to improve and also progressive so they are always challenged.”
- Significantly improves attainment“We have seen an improvement in our reading data across the school. Reading ages and stanines have risen consistently since the launch of Reading Eggs. Our PTE data in narrative and non-narrative comprehension has improved significantly.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children get to improve their phonics knowledge and sight vocabulary. They also are exposed to a wide range of texts and develop comprehension skills.”
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Feb 2024
It’s a fun and interactive way to learn and revise all areas of literacy. It makes the children want to read and complete quizzes. Collecting eggs and spending them on items of interest to them is a great incentive.
Roisin found Reading Eggs:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“During literacy stations”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“In a multi grade classroom with a variety of SEN needs”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Such a variety of literacy skills are explored in this programme.”
- Moderately improves attainment“No”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“In a multi grade classroom it’s is often difficult to focus on more than one area of literacy but Reading Eggs allows for revision of a variety of areas”
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Anna
Early Years Curriculum Coordinator
International School Westpfalz, Germany
Used Reading Eggs daily for 0–3 months
Feb 2024
It’s such an engaging programme which all students love. We have seen significant progress in our reading and that’s down to Reading Eggs.
Anna found Reading Eggs:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Activities already there to use. Amazing selection of books”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“I had a child join me with no English. She is now on Peak 6 in 2 months and thriving.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Significantly improves attainment“Students have are constantly reviewing taught sounds and blending and improving each day.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Some of my higher achieving students have begun to learn new phonemes from Reading Eggs which we haven’t learnt in class yet. Then when we start them in class, they already have a significant understanding and good recognition of them.”
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Jan 2024
Good programme for developing reading at any age
Carolynn found Reading Eggs:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload
- Moderately reduces attainment gap
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge
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Deirdre Noonan
Literacy Coordinator/ teacher
Scoil Chriost Ri Boys NS, Ireland
Used Reading Eggs weekly for 4-6 months
Jan 2024
Yvonne was so helpful and accommodating and ensured we were equipped to use reading eggs correctly.
Deirdre Noonan found Reading Eggs:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Instant lessons for kids, access to 4000 ebooks with resources, convenience to access reports on pupils.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“pupils increasing scores and reading levels”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Excellent access to vocab, increased comprehension skills and access to high level books”
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Dec 2023
Reading Eggs supports our curriculum and children's progress well. Our children love it!
Jennie Muller found Reading Eggs:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Staff can monitor the level children are accessing independently and can set challenges to support further progress.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“We initially used Reading Eggs to support children with gaps following the pandemic. We now use it regularly to support specific needs and children have made significant progress as a result.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to plan for children to access specific activities such as reading comprehension independently.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Children who use the program regularly outside of school have made accelerated progress in reading.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge
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Avril Murray
Special Education Teacher
Balscadden National School, Ireland
Used Reading Eggs daily for 3-4 years
Dec 2023
It can be hard to incorporate Reading Eggs into the daily routine but if this can be done and the work monitored it is a great teaching resource. Most of the students enjoy Reading Eggs. I like the structure of the phonics teaching and also the comprehension exercises are great. It is however a big investment and needs to be used regularly to gain knowledge.
Avril Murray found Reading Eggs:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“It provides differentiated work where each student is working at their own level. It also provides worksheets Togo with the activities.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap“I’m not sure that it impacts the attainment gap between students”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It’s great for station teaching. Children are motivated to work independently and are totally engaged with their own RE activities while the teacher can work with small groups in a quieter environment”
- Slightly improves attainment“This is hard to quantify. But the children do work independently at their own level which consolidates their learning”
- Slightly builds student knowledge“There are good nonfiction resources at the higher levels. At the lower levels the students improve their knowledge of phonics and also there are good comprehension activities which students must pass to proceed in the program.”
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Mr Ashley Rawlinson
Teacher (English Lead)
Goldthorn Park Primary, England
Used Reading Eggs daily for 3-4 years
Dec 2023
Easy to use for staff and children. Children enjoy the interactive elements of the program. Has impacted on children's progress and attainment for those that access the program on a daily/weekly basis. Provides challenging texts also.
Mr Ashley Rawlinson found Reading Eggs:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Easy to set reading/spelling assignments and track children's progress termly and yearly.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Positive correlation between children who access the program on a daily/weekly basis and their progress in reading and comprehension skills.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency
- Moderately improves attainment“Children more likely to achieve age related outcome if used regularly and in conjunction with other reading activities.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Broaden vocabulary and knowledge in other areas of the curriculum”
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Abigail Bass
Head of English, Class Teacher
Pembridge Hall School, England
Used Reading Eggs weekly for 3-4 years
Dec 2023
Very interactive, easy to use and the children enjoy
Abigail Bass found Reading Eggs:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Comprehension”
- Does not significantly reduce attainment gap
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Does not significantly improve attainment
- Slightly builds student knowledge“Depending on age - Phonics yes”
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Dec 2023
It is an excellent addition to our curriculum. Since having the training, it is being used well and properly, suiting the children's needs and enabling the children to learn in a fun way when they are in school or at home.
Laura Bainbridge found Reading Eggs:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It is an activity that can be easily used as part of the guided reading carousel. It is also supporting the progress of children who use it at home and therefore they are becoming more able to read independently meaning less intervention is needed.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“For children who use it regularly at home, it is helping them to catch up with their peers in school.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It cements learning that takes place in school at a pace suitable to the children, meaning less support is needed in school.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Some children love using it at home and I have noticed a big improvement in the ability to segment and blend when reading in school.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Children know more phonemes and are becoming more fluent.”
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Pedagogy
Certified by Education Alliance Finland, 02/2020
EAF Evaluation is an academically-backed approach to evaluating the pedagogical design of a product. EAF evaluators assess the product using criteria that covers the most essential pedagogical aspects in the learning experience.
PassiveActive
Reading Eggs provides a lot of materials for the students to practice with. Most of the activities require active engagement from the user and they can go forward only by doing all of the activities. There's plenty of extra material, like games and stories that the user can play with after completing the given tasks, and the teacher material also includes extra activities done in class. The users can't skip content but the teacher can assign certain tasks for the students.
RehearseConstruct
Reading Eggs provides a lot of material that starts from letters and phonemes and continues to words and stories. The extent of the planned material makes it support learning over time in a very comprehensive way, and the learner's new skills are built upon the existing skills and knowledge. By default, all the students start from the same baseline but the teacher can give individual tasks as well even though the students wouldn't have gone through all the content yet.
LinearNon-linear/Creative
Reading Eggs follows linear, predetermined user progression. The content is divided into lessons and students need to progress in order if the teacher doesn't give other instructions and give other tasks. The learning progress is quite directly comparable between students, and teachers have data about this. The placement test sets the right difficulty level for each student.
IndividualCollaborative
Most of the activities are done individually and independently, without interacting with other students. Some of the teachers' activities include collaborative tasks. Students can also write stories and other students can rate them.
Learning goals
Certified by Education Alliance Finland
The supported learning goals are identified by mapping the product against the selected reference curriculum and soft skills definitions most relevant for the 21st century.
- Experiencing and exploring sounds and music from different sources
- Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
- Using technology as a part of explorative process
- Practising visual recognition
- Practicing to observe spoken and written language
- Practicing categorization and classification
- Practicing fine motor skills
- Practicing memorizing skills
- Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
- Creating requirements for creative thinking
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
- Practicing to set one's own learning goals
- Practicing to take responsibility of one's own learning
- Practicing persistent working
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
- Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
- Learning to face failures and disappointments
- Encouraging to build new information and visions
- Using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read.
- Understand books by predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
- Understand books by answering and asking questions.
- Understand books by predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far.
- Understand books by making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
- Understand books by discussing the significance of the title and events.
- Understand books by checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading.
- Understand books by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.
- Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known.
- Learning to appreciate rhymes and poems, and to recite some by heart.
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (morphology and etymology), as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words that they meet.
- Read further exception words, noting the unusual correspondences between spelling and sound, and where these occur in the word.
- Apply their growing knowledge of root words, prefixes and suffixes (etymology and morphology) as listed in English Appendix 1, both to read aloud and to understand the meaning of new words they meet.
- Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.
- Read aloud books closely matched to their improving phonic knowledge, sounding out unfamiliar words accurately, automatically and without undue hesitation.
- Continue to apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words until automatic decoding has become embedded and reading is fluent.
- Re-read these books to build up their fluency and confidence in word reading.
- Read aloud accurately books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge and that do not require them to use other strategies to work out words.
- Read common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word.
- Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught.
- Respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes.
- Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
- Learning to notice causal connections
- Practising visual recognition
- Practicing to observe spoken and written language
- Practicing categorization and classification
- Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
- Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative
- Practicing creative thinking
- Learning to find the joy of learning and new challenges
- Practicing to evaluate one's own learning
- Practicing to find ways of working that are best for oneself
- Practicing persistent working
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
- Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
- Learning to plan and design own written content and textual representations
- Learning the basics of spelling
- Practicing keyboard skills and touch typing
- Using technology as a part of explorative process
- Encouraging the growth of positive self-image
- Learning to face failures and disappointments
- Learning to combine information to find new innovations
- Learning to build information on top of previously learned
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Supporting student to build their own linguistic and cultural identity
- Enabling the growth of positive self-image
- Practicing communication through different channels
- Read other words of more than one syllable that contain taught GPCs.
- Read words containing taught GPCs and –s, –es, –ing, –ed, –er and –est endings.
- Read accurately by blending sounds in unfamiliar words containing GPCs that have been taught.
- Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
- Understand books by discussing the significance of the title and events.
- Listening to and discussing a wide range of poems, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently.
- With guidance and support from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish writing.
- Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension.
- Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words.
- Read words with inflectional endings.
- Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of syllables in a printed word.
- Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
- Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual sounds (phonemes).
- Isolate and pronounce initial, medial vowel, and final sounds (phonemes) in spoken single-syllable words.
- Orally produce single-syllable words by blending sounds (phonemes), including consonant blends.
- Distinguish long from short vowel sounds in spoken single-syllable words.
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
- With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
- Identify words and phrases in stories or poems that suggest feelings or appeal to the senses.
- Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
- Read easily, fluently and with good understanding.
- Practicing to observe spoken and written language
- Practicing memorizing skills
- Practicing letters, alphabets and written language
- Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the route to decode words.
- Understand books by making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done.
- Understand books by checking that the text makes sense to them as they read and correcting inaccurate reading.
- Understand books by drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher.
- Discussing word meanings, linking new meanings to those already known.
- Write clearly, accurately and coherently, adapting their language and style in and for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences.
- Acquire a wide vocabulary, an understanding of grammar and knowledge of linguistic conventions for reading, writing and spoken language.
- Learning to notice causal connections
- Practicing persistent working
- Practicing to look things from different perspectives
- Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings
- Developing problem solving skills
- Learning to understand and interpret diverse types of texts
- Practicing logical reasoning to understand and interpret information in different forms
- Learning the basics of spelling
- Learning to build information on top of previously learned
- Practicing to notice causal connections
- Practicing versatile ways of working
- Define words by category and by one or more key attributes.
- Read grade-level text with purpose and understanding.
- Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words.
- Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs.
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
- Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds.
- With prompting and support, read prose and poetry of appropriate complexity for grade 1.
- Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a text.
- Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson.
- Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
- Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
- Spelling the days of the week.
- Spelling common exception words.
- Spelling words containing each of the 40+ phonemes already taught.
- Apply simple spelling rules and guidance.
- Read common exception words, noting unusual correspondences between spelling and sound and where these occur in the word.
- Respond speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes.