Reading
Last updated: December 19, 2025
Learning to Read through explicit and systematic instruction, highly engaging lessons, motivating rewards, and an easy-to-use interface, students rapidly build essential reading and phonics skills harnessing the proven power of the science of reading’s five pillars of literacy.
Widely adopted in 60 countries
1 languages
Target audience: Educators and teachers, Institutional or administrative staff, Parents or guardians
Category: Learning activities, Learning content, Tool for parents and caregivers, Tool for teachers
Grade: Early Childhood, Primary
No offline functionality
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How this product was evaluated?
Reading Eggs uses explicit, systematic instruction to ensure knowledge from the five pillars (phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency) is integrated and connected in meaningful ways. The program manages the cognitive load of learning tasks into small chunks with multiple guided practice opportunities to review and revisit learning. Impact is measured in regular, quick check-ins offering with immediate, corrective feedback as is best practice.
Reading Eggs is backed by at least one quasi-experimental study that shows a statistically significant positive impact on the intended outcomes.
Different levels of research evidence indicate the reliability of the proof of positive impact. The tools featured in the Learning Cabinet range from:
Using Reading Eggs showed higher reading achievement and those with higher usage outperformed their peers who had low or moderate use. Students who completed 51–121 total ABC Reading Eggs lessons had higher end-of-year Growth reading achieved.
Students that used Reading Eggs during the COVID shut downs had higher reading achievement than peers who did not.
Using Reading Eggs and completing more lessons equates to higher reading levels.
After the testing period, results revealed that the Reading Eggs program, when used as a supplement, was effective in improving reading proficiency scores. The percent of below-grade students in the Reading Eggs treatment group decreased by 19%
Kindergarten and Year 1 Students who completed more Reading Eggs lessons had higher Spring 2024 Amira Reading Mastery scores.
Recommended use
Recommended usage is 20 minutes a week at home or at school with a focus on completing the lessons.
Recommended usage is 20 minutes a week at home or at school with a focus on completing the lessons.
Target audience
Learning to Read through explicit and systematic instruction, highly engaging lessons, motivating rewards, and an easy-to-use interface, students rapidly build essential reading and phonics skills harnessing the proven power of the science of reading’s five pillars of literacy.
Five Pillars of Reading: The lessons are built around the five essential components of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency.
Sequenced, Builds on Previous Lessons: Each lesson builds on the skills learned in the previous one, progressing through the levels to develop foundational reading skills.
Placement Test: A placement test ensures students start at the appropriate level for their ability, providing a personalized learning path.
Interactive and Engaging: The program uses educational videos, games, and activities to motivate and engage young learners.
Reading Eggs' pedagogical design is explicit and systematic instruction across the five essential pillars of literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The program uses interactive animations to introduce concepts, followed by structured, engaging activities and decodable readers for practice, all delivered through a research-based, sequential learning framework. Motivational elements also contribute to the design, ensuring children learn in a safe, fun, and effective online environment.
Our program is designed for children to be able to use it independently, and this requires an intuitive design. Feedback from parents and teachers is used to inform improvements and future lesson development. We also monitor lesson completion rates to identify any problems or obstacles that may hinder student progress.
We take user feedback and are currently updating our WAGs compliance to the newest ratings.
Reading Eggs was created in Australia. We focus on mapping curriculum in the countries and states where we have the largest footprint and constantly add additional regions. Also, as the program is in English, it is well-suited to English-speaking countries. However, we have received positive feedback and are seeing growth in territories where English is not typically the first language and thus have customers across the globe.
While we don’t disclose pricing and discounts for our programs, we have in the past negotiated volume-based discounts and other pricing concessions. We are willing to work on flexible pricing arrangements depending on geographic or economic factors.
In the past negotiated pricing concessions and volume discounts for specific projects and countries, including China, India, South Africa, Korea, and Taiwan.
Regional or state government projectsPartnership models with national institutionsWe work with the Click Foundation in South Africa, delivering Reading Eggs to over 100,000 students across the nation.
Reading Eggs does not fulfil the WCAG 2.1 level AA requirementsAutomatic toolsWe do not collect any data on the student's gender.
Evaluated using the Learning Cabinet’s rigorous EdTech for Good Framework to ensure safety, learning impact, scalability, and inclusion for all learners.
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