I'm Melissa Grande, a Teacher at True North High School Academy.
That also means that I am a working mom, and I'm always on the lookout to find great products that my own children can use to help us in our educational journey. I'm here today to give a review of Reading Eggs because Reading Eggs is one of the programs that has definitely done that.
We have used Reading Eggs multiple times throughout our homeschooling careers when my kids were smaller, and now, believe it or not, I've been even using it with my seventh grader this year to help supplement with language arts. Let me tell you a little bit about the product and why we love it so much.
Number one, it is very easy to use, so you can go to readingeggs.com, which will bring you to the home screen for Reading Eggs. It is very easy to find the free trial right in the middle of your page, and you may also notice that it's available on the App Store and Google Play, which I love because if you're using an iPad or a mobile device, you can take the program on the go. You can use it in the car when you're traveling, and we all know how much kids love apps, so it's great that you can use it as an app as well.
Once you log in to your Reading Eggs account or create your Reading Eggs account, you'll be able to set up each of your children with their own profile. Once they have their own profile, you will have several different options to get started.
First, you'll see all the different levels of Reading Eggs that you can select from, typically based on your children's ages. Of course, there's going to be some variation depending on your child's needs. There is a placement test that you can do, which I highly recommend. It is very good at seeing where a child is in their language arts progress and can help you decide where the best place for them to begin is, so they're not starting too low and getting bored with the program right off the bat. They are able to enjoy it, and it starts off being a bit of a challenge for them. Because it's gamified and done through a fun program, it's not boring or tedious.
All of my kids have enjoyed this program. It's colorful, has fun graphics, and gives them the opportunity to experience language arts through a game instead of through flashcards or other tedious methods of studying. It motivates them to do the program, which is great because I'm not having to remind them to practice their language arts every day—they want to do it on their own.
When they were younger, we've used some of the younger programs, and this year we were using the Reading Express program too. Let me tell you about a few of the other features that we really like.
At the top of the page, you'll notice a section for the Bookshop. What's great about the Bookshop is that you can find all kinds of other activities and educational games that go along with Reading Eggs. You can purchase the book pack levels, which is great because it allows you to use Reading Eggs as a full and complete language arts
Back to our family dashboard, there are some great bonus materials as well. If you don't want to use the complete book sets, there's also an option to print some activity sheets. The activity sheets come in English and Spanish, which has its own benefits. If you're Spanish-speaking, the Spanish activity sheets are excellent, but they're also a great way to practice Spanish if your family is currently learning Spanish as a second language. It’s cross-disciplinary right off the bat by giving you that option to practice that way as well.
I also love the rewards map. You can print it out and use little icons to track your students' progress. This was very motivating for my children when they were younger because they could see how far they'd come. They also loved placing the little avatars and icons at their next level when they reached it, which was motivating for them as well.
I really love that it has a parent user guide. I don't know about you, but tech is sometimes not my favorite thing, so I love that it gives you step-by-step instructions on how to use the program so that you can get the most use out of it. It's very easy to understand and has pictures that show you where each of the steps is located, so it’s a great set of instructions for parents.
I also appreciate their homeschool section. The homeschool section has been a lifesaver for us because you can download the scope and sequence for whatever grade your child is in, and it will lay out their program for the entire year. It also has the social studies and science book lists along with it, so you're supplementing those two subjects as you're going through the Reading Eggs program as well. The lesson overviews are also helpful in planning.
The summer school resources are great. We all want to avoid that summer slide. It is summertime right now, so it gives you all the information you need to create an online summer camp for your child and even has webinars for each week of the summer program. That is helpful, again with instructions super easy to figure out, which I really like.
The certificates are also very motivating. If you live in a state where you have to do an end-of-the-year portfolio review for your students, the certificates are great for that. You can print them or email them to the person reviewing your portfolio, and they're a way to show completion of the levels that you need to. My kids loved printing them out and hanging them up in their rooms when they were done with a certain section, so that was another way they were motivated by the program.
There’s also a sample lessons page where you can look at different samples of the lessons that your students will be doing. These are great because they give you an idea of where they're at, and they also let you see what the lessons look like if you're still deciding about your subscription.
Again, it's a very well-organized program. My kids really enjoyed it. It grows with them as they're aging. Like I’ve said before, if we've used
I hope that you appreciated this review and it helped you see a little bit about Reading Eggs and why we like them so much. Hopefully, it will be able to help you in your homeschool program as well. Thanks for watching this review.
Lisa Nehring and her husband, Dr. David Nehring, a Clinical Psychologist, and Biblical Scholar speak together on a wide variety of topics, including education, classical education, vision, mission, parenting, marriage, and more.
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