Reading Eggs Review

Just recently, we were blessed enough to be able to review Reading Eggs. Reading Eggs is an online, learn to read program. It has been designed for ages 3-7. They also have a program for ages 7-13 called Reading Eggspress. The program is able to take non-readers and have them reading on a first grade level.

Ladybug got to be the lucky one to do the fun stuff! She is 5, and we had been working on reading in Kindergarten this past school year. I thought Reading Eggs would be a great to addition to reinforce what we were already doing.

She does not enjoy learning to read the way her older sister, Butterfly, did, but she does LOVE to play video games. Video Game Brain is something Ladybug inherited from her father, so when the opportunity to review Reading Eggs came up, I was thrilled. I was still a little skeptical, but she took to the game right away.

When you sign up with Reading Eggs, you are able to choose whether or not you'd like to start as a beginner or take a placement test. We opted to take a placement test, but Ladybug quickly decided she needed to start from the beginning to "crack all of the eggs." After choosing how you'd like to start, children are taken to a map. The spots on the map are lessons that teach a phonetic sound, special sounds, or combination.

In each lesson, students are given about 10 different games to play (more or less) to teach and reinforce the sounds that are being taught.

She did get a little bored at some of these, and I found a few to be a little repetitive, lesson after lesson. She was not discouraged, however, and wanted to finish so she could get her reward at the end. At the end of each lesson, the children get to watch a new egg crack open. Inside each egg are very funny mix-matched creatures, like a cat/octopus, a dog/frog/dophin, or a tiger/turtle. Ladybug loved watching what new creature she had unlocked. She even had Butterfly curious as to what was about to hatch.

They are also rewarded with golden eggs. With their golden eggs, they are able to go to the store and buy creatures, clothes, and furniture for their house.

Lady bug has stepped back from playing, but I really think the only reason is that she had forgotten about it during a week that we were very busy and away from home. I'm going to remind her and encourage her to keep at it. I think it's definitely helping to reinforce what we've been doing and helping to teach her additional things we haven't covered yet!

Head on over to Reading Eggs and try it out for free for 14 days!!

~Mandy

*We were given a three-month subscription for review purposes only. No other compensation was received and opinions are our own. :)