Reading Eggs, Fast Phonics, and Reading Eggspress

Reading Eggs (K-Grade 7) focuses on a core phonics and sight words curriculum using skills and strategies essential for sustained reading success.

Reading Eggs (K-Grade 2) makes learning to read interesting and engaging for kids with great online reading games and activities. Games, songs, golden eggs, and other rewards motivate students to keep exploring and learning as they build foundational literacy skills.

Reading Eggspress (Grades 2-7) is designed for older readers and provides a unique and effective learning environment. It focuses on building reading fluency and comprehension, spelling and vocabulary, and writing skills, including grammar and punctuation, in an exciting and relevant way.

Fast Phonics (K-Grade 5) is an online synthetic phonics program where children learn essential phonics skills, including letter‑sound recognition, blending, and spelling. Children explore fun activities, decodable reading books, and meet lovable characters like the Reading Eggs Yeti.

This subscription is not available to HCOS Registered students.

Logging In

 

ts should contact their support teacher to get their students' Reading Eggs, Reading Eggspress or Fast Phonics login.

Parents, please preview content in the middle-grade library as there may be secular content. Please note these books are optional and are not required reading. We advise families to actively check texts to make choices that align with their family’s values.

Using the Subscription

Reading Eggs Overview (2 min.)

Using Reading Eggs to Support Your Child With Learning At Home(for parents and caregivers 15 min.) 

Try a sample lesson in Reading Eggspress

Explanation of Reading Eggs, Reading Eggspress and Fast Phonics .pdf

What’s New in Reading Eggs:  Introducing Fast Phonics  (57 minutes)

Unfortunately, Reading Eggs is set up so that there are privacy issues if a parent goes into a class. Teachers can access numerous worksheets through Reading Eggs. Contact your support teacher to find out what they will make available.

If you wish to record your student reading from Reading Eggs to share the reading with your support teacher, please go to Vocaroo for easy recording, then forward the file to your teacher.  Here is the link to a video showing how this works: How to Use Vocaroo.  It is effortless; your students can use it without trouble.

Multiple Learning Areas that Can Open Up

On top of the Reading Eggs lessons, there are multiple learning areas for your child to explore, including Puzzles (fun word puzzles for younger learners), Driving Tests (assessment), Story Factory (online story creator), Storylands (comprehension lessons) and Spelling. These areas open at various stages in the program, depending on what lesson your child is on.

Storylands
Enter the land of Clinker Castle by venturing into Storylands. This area focuses on expanding vocabulary and building comprehension skills using activities, levelled texts, and a comprehension quiz in each lesson. Available after lesson 60.

Spelling Skills Bank
Build spelling skills inside the walls of the Skills Bank. This area incorporates lessons that test spelling strategies, including word structure, word families, meaning, segmentation, phonics, and repetition to build spelling knowledge. Available after lesson 40.

Puzzle Park
Experience brain-stretching puzzles that reinforce comprehension, high-frequency sight word knowledge, vocabulary development, and problem-solving inside the Puzzle Park. Available after lesson 40.

Driving Tests
Assess reading skills with Driving Tests that cover high-frequency sight words, phonics skills, and vocabulary. When students answer questions correctly, they are rewarded with an exciting racing game. Available after lesson 40.

Story Factory
Practice writing skills and storytelling in the Story Factory. This learning area allows students to create their own storybooks. Students can save their books to My House for later rereading or submit them to a weekly contest. Available after lesson 10.

My House, Reggie’s Shop, and Arcade
To motivate learners each step of the way, students earn rewards in the form of Golden Eggs to celebrate their learning achievements. In Reggie’s Shop, students can cash in their Golden Eggs to decorate their house or dress their Avatar. In the Arcade, students can also spend their Golden Eggs and play educational games. Shop available after lesson 6, My House available after lesson 10.

Reading Eggspress Read Aloud Fluency

Teachers can now assign a read-aloud activity, either a book or a chapter, via Reading Eggspress assignments. Students record themselves reading for one minute in a stress-free environment of their choice. Teachers can then remotely listen to these recordings, assess fluency and provide personalized, constructive feedback on student performance.

With Read Aloud Fluency, stress and anxiety vanish, allowing your students to record themselves from the comfort of their own home, boosting their confidence and improving fluency.

• Please note: To effectively use Read Aloud Fluency, this feature requires students to have access to a microphone and to grant permission for microphone use.

Printables Library

The Reading Eggs printable library can be found here.

Troubleshooting

You can fix most problems with Reading Eggs by following the troubleshooting steps below. Try these steps in order. If one doesn’t fix the problem, move on to the next one. If you need any help, please contact our friendly customer service team.

• Refresh your page.

• Ensure you have a strong internet connection.

• Ensure you access the Reading Eggs via the internet address bar and not through “shortcuts” or “favourites.”

• Delete your browsing history (temporary internet files/cache/cookies), as your computer may continually memorize the same error. Google “clear cache” and choose your browser for instructions.

• Upgrade your Internet Browser to Google Chrome.

• Investigate whether you have a parental lock or anti-virus software blocking the site. Ensure the following URLs are on your safe list:

readingeggs.com
readingeggspress.com
student.readingeggspress.com

Tablet Users

• Refresh the page.

• Ensure you have high-speed wifi Internet access.

• Ensure that Javascript is enabled on your device.

• Delete the browser history and cookies. For appropriate instructions:

  • Safari users, click here.

  • Chrome users, click here.

• Close and restart the Application/Browser. For appropriate instructions:

  • iPad users, click here. 

  • Android users, click here.

• Reset your device.
  iPad: Press and hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons simultaneously for at least ten seconds until the Apple logo appears.
  Android: Press and hold the Power/Lock button and select ‘Power Off’ from the options to shut down the device. Press and hold the Power/Lock button again to restart it.

• Delete and re-install the application.