How is Reading Eggs built on the five essential pillars of reading?

Phonemic Awareness

Learning and manipulating the sounds in spoken words.

Phonics

Recognizing the relationship between written and spoken letters and sounds.

Vocabulary

Understanding words, their definitions, and their context.

Reading Comprehension

Learning to understand the meaning of different texts.

Fluency

The ability to read aloud with speed, accuracy, and the appropriate expression.

How is phonemic awareness developed?

Songs and rhymes introduce each phoneme through a series of carefully scaffolded activities
Phonemic awareness games allow students to practise listening for and identifying appropriate letter sounds
Lessons teach how to hear, segment, and substitute phonemes
Onset and rime activities ensure that students can hear, recognize, and create words that rhyme

Beginning with letter‑sound correspondence, students learn to match sounds to letters
Students blend 2- and 3‑letters together to read phonically decodable words. They also segment words to spell them
Each lesson ends with a levelled text to help students apply what they’ve learned
Onset and rime activities help students build fluency with word families

Vocabulary words are explicitly taught using a variety of differentiated activities
Content words are introduced using audio and visuals to get at meaning
High‑frequency sight words are reinforced using a carefully designed sequence to maximize student recall
Just‑right books that appear in 'My Program' help students practise reading words they know

Scaffolded vocabulary activities boost student understanding of what they read.
Lexile‑levelled fiction and nonfiction texts match students' reading ability
The Library provides hundreds of levelled titles with comprehension quizzes that allow students to practise and improve their skills
Questions build comprehension in the four main areas of literal, inferential, vocabulary, and critical thinking

Built‑in read‑to‑me audio feature on hundreds of beginner titles provides students with a positive model for fluent reading
Word activities within lessons build automaticity for a range of words including high frequency and phonically decodable words
Good word attack skills based on segmenting and blending maximize the ability to decode and read new texts
The ability to read and reread texts improves students’ fluency and confidence when reading