Reading Eggs

Hi all,

We currently have a one-month trial set up for the website www.readingeggs.com.  Room 20 will be using it for Reading homework over the next four weeks.

This website works similarly to Mathletics, but is focused on reading, writing, spelling and grammar.

It is particularly good for reading, where you can complete learning activities based around reading comprehension and read a large range of books from the online library.

There is also a place where students can race against the computer or other people for spelling and grammar.

Each student has an avatar (of course!) that they can change.  They use this avatar to navigate the site, where the goal is to collect as many golden eggs as possible.  These golden eggs can be traded for goodies within the site, which can be bought from the mall, and are kept in the apartment.

Each student has a sequence of targets to achieve on the site.  Please encourage your child to work through these targets as it should help with their reading.  Also encourage them to read the texts carefully to get the most out of the site.

If you can, take some time to look at the website with your child.  If you like it, let me know and I will fee it back to the management staff.

Technically, this site was designed to run on the Google Chrome browser, so if you do experience any issues, you could try installing Chrome, which is free, and running it on that browser.