Is Reading Eggs any good?

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Hi,
There is a living social deal running for half price reading eggs subscription at the moment. Just wondered if it might be worth doing with my 4yr old dd2? She is in reception and just getting to grips with reading, knows single letter sounds and can read most straightforward 2 and 3 letter words, struggles with words with vowel combinations, which she probably hasn't been taught yet. Is the website fun and engaging for a standard ability 4 year old? I just want something to reinforce her learning and she seems more keen to use the computer than sit down with books....Any opinions gratefully received. Thanks

Hi
My dd (also four)has had Reading Eggs for a year or so - she goes in fits and starts with it to be honest - so at some points it has been an every day must, and at other points she gets bored.
That said. Dd hasn't started Reception yet (will in two weeks) but the attached nursery informs me in her school report that she has made "exceptional progress" with reading and has been "remarkably" well-prepared. I would love to take the credit, but fear that this is almost entirely the fault of Sam the Ant and his Reading Eggs friends!

We used Starfall.com which is a free site, to help support DD's learning to read, plus a subscription to Education City, which she covers learning to read, along with lots of other school subjects.

DD1 has had reading eggs now for a cuple of years. She is making good progress. although, like sleepingbunnys DD, she has fits and starts. You may find that, if she has a burst of learning during some time off from reading eggs, you may have to sit there and run through some of the lessons yourself, to "catch up" with DD.

Overall though, very good.

DS2 had it when he was 3.5. Started school at 4.0 able to read quite nicely, all thanks to his reading eggs addiction hobby.

What age is this up to?

We're is this deal on ?

They ran a similar deal on www.savvymummys.co.uk recently. A friend of mine brought it and highly recommends it. Too soon for me, but maybe one for the future.

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I think it's good. There is Reading Eggspress or something like that now for 5-9 year olds.

Major hands up for reading eggs - Have tried a few inc headsprout and this is much more fun and offers more variety - the new reading express is for 7-13 yr olds and is again is more fun and varied than the Headsprout comprehension (7-13) that my 9 yr old and 13yr old have tried

Sorry - I think the deal has run out now. I signed up for the 14 day free trial. DD2 seemed to like it for a few days but has now got bored so I'm quite glad I didn't commit for longer. It did seem good though.

We're using Reading Eggs (among other things) to help DS (age 4) with his reading. He finds it a lot of fun. My main issue with it is he has a fair amount of reading knowledge already but not enough to get through their initial reading test so it's made him start from scratch and most of what he's doing is repetition. Not a bad thing in itself but it's annoying I can't unlock the more advanced lessons for him.

I'm having problems with this site - logged in OK but can't seem to see where the activities are? I can see the free accompanying sheets etc. but not the actual online games.

I'm waiting for them to get back to me... any ideas? Am I just being very silly? Perhaps being on a Mac makes a difference.

My home ed girls use reading eggs and love it and are doing really well, started on the lower level one and now moved on to reading eggspress. They are 6.5yrs old. We did the 14 days free trial, then waited a while and they sent us an email offering a months free and now we've joined for a year. I think it's great.

Thought you might be interested to know that their is a deal on the family money saving website for reading eggs at the moment. www.littlebird.co.uk/readingeggs

betsy, have you tried using google chrome? I had similar problems when I first started trading eggs with dd but using chrome resolved it.