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 student’s 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.

Inbuilt Read‑to‑Me feature on all books levels 1-20, (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.
Good word attack skills based on segmenting and blending maximise the ability to decode and read new texts.
The ability to read and reread texts improves students fluency and confidence with written text.