How Does ABC Reading Eggs Combine the Five Elements of a Successful Reading Program?

Phonemic Awareness

Learning and manipulating the sounds in spoken words.

Phonics

Recognising 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.

120 one-on-one instructional lessons explicitly teach letter-sound correspondences
Teaches a core set of comprehension strategies to build understanding
High-frequency sight words introduced in a carefully designed sequence to maximise student recall

How is phonemic awareness developed?

Activities build knowledge of words, syllables and individual phonemes.
Engaging activities teach students how to hear different sounds in spoken words.
Lessons teach how to hear, segment and substitute phonemes.
Rhyming activities ensure that students can hear, recognise and create words that rhyme.

Phonic skills are the core of the ABC Reading Eggs program, with every lesson teaching a new phonics skill or reinforcing one that has already been taught.
Using a carefully designed sequence, each phonic skill builds on those already learnt.
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.
Reading lessons include carefully designed books where students practise their skills on real reading.
Onset and rime activities help students build fluency and with word families.

Scaffolded vocabulary activities boost student understanding of what they read.
Finely 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.

The inbuilt read‑to‑me feature on all book levels (1‑20), featuring hundreds of titles, provides students with good model for fluent reading.
Word activities within lessons build automaticity for a range of words, including high frequency and phonically decodable words.
The Read Aloud Fluency feature enables teachers to easily assess student fluency by assigning read‑aloud activities and providing personalised feedback.
With Read Aloud Fluency, students record themselves in a stress‑free setting, gaining confidence and improving proficiency.