Just because we don’t send Edward to school, doesn’t mean we don’t want him to miss out on some basic skills. There are many ways to get these basic skills, workbooks, posters and flash cards to name a few. There are also some quite nifty websites around that take your child through the basic word sounds, and blending to help them to read Reading Eggs is just one of those websites.
Reading Eggs focuses on making learning to read fun and engaging with a mix of games and activities which are geared towards motivating children to read. Let’s face it, reading is such an important skill, I love to read, it takes me places other things can’t. We love to read to Edward, it helps build his imagination and I find it so relaxing.
With Reading Eggs, Edward is learning to identify words, sounds and letters in such a fun environment – to him it’s a game! He doesn’t see that he’s ‘learning’ which is why I love it.
We started with the free two week trial, just to see how he’d get on with it. We were pleasantly surprised at how much he liked it and how he took to using the computer, yet another reason we love Reading Eggs, as he progresses through it encourages him to use the computer more and teaches him very basic computer skills.
At the moment he is working through the 3 – 7 year old program, there is also a program for 6 – 8 year old’s which is aimed at children who know the basics of reading but still have a little way to go. It focuses on fluency, comprehension, spelling and grammar as well as vocabulary and punctuation. Unlike a lot of things we do as a family, this is one thing that supports the national curriculum, so it would be ideal for children who do attend school also. It’s paced carefully to match your child’s ability and progress and at no point have I felt that Edward is being rushed, he’s finding his own way and enjoying it!
A 6 month subscription will set you back £29.95, where as a years subscription costs £39.95 – you can add a second child at the same time for half price too.
There are also books to compliment the website that you can purchase these start at £39.95, but there are bundle deals available and I very often see discount codes doing the rounds.
We chose just the website option to start with, just to see how we go. We also subscribed to Math Seeds at the same time which is the maths version of Reading Eggs and works in exactly the same way.
Edward loves both sites and so do we.
****Disclaimer****
Neither Reading Eggs, nor Math Seeds have asked me for this review. I have had no financial recompense for this review, it is a personal review I have chosen to share.