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Reading Eggspress
Read more. Read well.
Where Reading is just part of the adventure!
Reading Eggspress is designed
to build reading and comprehension skills, for
students in grades 2–7 (7–13 year olds). Using a highly
engaging, floating island metaphor, this spinning world gets
students involved and excited as soon as they enter.
The Reading Eggspress website has an enormous range of
learning resources, lessons, motivational games, e-books and
a comprehensive reporting system that together create a
unique learning environment.
www.readingeggs.com.au
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For Students
Student Navigation
• Highly motivating
environment - a virtual
world for students to
explore, where they can
earn a variety of rewards.
Fantastica
Starstruck
Anamalia
Worldspan
Beastie
Astrotek
• Golden eggs, Eggspress
Currency, Trading Cards.
• Games: Daily Games, Brain
Games and Quote Quest.
Avatar, Apartment
and Mall
• At the mall, use golden eggs to
buy avatar clothes and apartment
furniture.
• The Trophy Room in the Apartment
displays student medallions.
The Comprehension
Gym
• The Comprehension Gym placement
test places students at the correct
level.
• There are over 200 interactive
comprehension lessons graded over
five broad levels from grade 2 to
grade 6/7. 40 lessons per year level.
• Each Comprehension Gym lesson
includes pre-reading activities that
model and teach comprehension
strategies, the reading extract
followed by a set of comprehension
questions that assess a student’s
factual, inferential and textual
understandings of the text.
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For Students
The Library
• The Library includes a wide range of
levelled fiction and nonfiction titles
with an online reading quiz included
for each title. Children can ‘fave’ a
book, bookmark where they are
up to and rate each book. When
students first choose a book, they
will see the number of people who
have read the book and its rating.
• The Reading Eggspress Library has
more than 1000 e-books. These
include illustrated chapter books,
full colour nonfiction books and a
range of classics. Search for books
by topic, series, author, reading age
or book title.
• New books will be added regularly.
The Stadium
• Compete in real time against
students from around the country
and around the world. The exciting
head-to-head contest will test skills
in one of four areas — spelling,
vocabulary, usage and grammar
with varying levels of difficulty.
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Teacher Toolkit
An extensive range of teaching resources to supplement ABC Reading Eggspress in the classroom
and support you as you develop your students’ skills in literacy.
For Teachers
Writing
Hundreds of downloadable documents focusing on
Text Types and based on a number of texts, such
as poems, recipes and short stories. Interactive
resources ideal for use with IWB’s targeting
informational and persuasive writing.
Grammar
Teacher Demonstration Lessons are presentations
perfect for your IWB or class room projector. Each
lesson has a matching unit of work provided as a
downloadable pdf.
Spelling
A range of teaching notes and student
worksheets that target problem areas in spelling
such as silent letters, compound words, plurals,
common errors, homophones and modern
words.
Comprehension
Interactive presentations across all levels
covering areas of learning, such as figurative,
inferential and literal.
Book Notes
NAPLAN Preparation
Units of work for students in Years 2 to 7,
designed to assist with test preparation.
Targeting English
The popular Targeting English series of
Student workbooks and Teaching Guides
integrates learning across all strands of
English. There are 5 levels in the series for
7 to 12 year olds. Each unit covers reading,
comprehension, writing and grammar
skills.
Download teaching notes and student
worksheets for all 1000+ titles found in the
Reading Eggspress Library.
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Comprehension Lessons Overview
Comprehension Gym level 2.1-2.4
Level Extract Book Title
Sparklers
Go, Go Gecko
Sparklers
2.1 - 2
Tim’s Money Tree
Sparklers
2.1 - 3
Songbird
Sparklers
2.1 - 4
Miss Feline’s Unusual Pets
2.1 - 1
2.1 - 5 The Ant and the Dove
2.1 - 6
2.1 - 8
2.1 - 9
2.1 - 10
2.2 - 1
2.2 - 2
2.2 - 3
2.2 - 4
2.2 - 5 The Dog and His Reflection
Go Facts
From Farms to You
Go Facts
2.2 - 7
Tools
Go Facts
2.2 - 8
Transport
2.2 - 6
F
F
F
F
F
NF
NF
NF
NF
Reading age 6.5-7.5
Dictionary
gecko, poke, shiver, excitement, stare
Part 3
Part 4
Picture this sentence Blankety blanks
Drawing
nearly, guess, quiet, perfect, nuisance, disgusting
conclusions
Pictures have
bamboo, born, cage, means, spent
feelings too
Drawing
favour, nervous, purred, tap, unusual
conclusions
Main idea and
aim, drown, safety, startle, thirsty
details
Drawing
break, crowd, gather, light, sandals
conclusions
Compare and
cactus, spine, trunk, waxy
contrast
Main idea and
busy, commuter, instead, peak, subway
details
Drawing
ground, harvest, loaves, popular, rise, yeast
conclusions
Words in context
It’s not there
Fact or opinion?
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Key words
Words in context
Word wizard
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Word trees
Word wizard
It’s not there
Making
inferences
Drawing
conclusions
Blankety blanks
Words in context
It’s not there
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Words in context
NF
chop, delicious, favourite, juice, liquid, recipe
F
alien, ankle, cling, frown, pour, prick, squeak
F
believe, mess, naughty, stuck, tip
F
bench, faint, greedy, mobile, shocked
F
coast, courtship, goods, woods, worldly
Fact or opinion?
Labels
Words in context
F
image, meaty, reflection, wonderful, yelp
Main idea and
details
Blankety blanks
Making
inferences
avoid, collect, hive, nectar, process, protective
Captions
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Compare and
contrast
Labels
Words in context
NF
Fact or opinion?
Part 5
Drawing
conclusions
Pictures have
feelings too
Drawing
conclusions
Drawing
conclusions
Compare and
contrast
It’s not there
Key words
Making
inferences
Main idea and
details
NF
advanced, bronze, design, metal, simple
NF
automated, engineer, perhaps, solar
2.2 - 9 Postcards
NF
fierce, gallery, greeting, marine, pretend, vista
Fact or opinion
It’s not there
2.2 - 10 Signs
NF
extreme, fragile, handle, moderate, site, tow
Drawing
conclusions
Drawing
conclusions
Word wizard
Words in context
F
fragment, inspire, realise, sketch, treasure
Making connections It’s not there
Talk, shout and
whisper
F
itchy, plaster, rude, tickled, wriggle
Making inferences
Key words
Point of view
F
believe, new, side, terrible, wait
Labels
Pictures have
feelings too
F
afraid, froze, interrupt, performance, trapeze,
troupe
Drawing
conclusions
Making inferences
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Main idea and
details
Word wizard
Sequencing events
Blankety blanks
2.3 - 1
2.3 - 2
2.3 - 3
2.3 - 4
Wonder Wits
Artrageous
Gigglers
World’s Longest Toenail
Sparklers
A Hairy Question
Storylands Circus Bizurkus
Readers’ Theatre 3
2.3 - 5 The Lion and the Gnat
Brainwaves
Dino Dig
Brainwaves
2.3 - 7
Inventing the Future
Go Facts
2.3 - 8
Boats
2.3 - 6
2.3 - 9 Invitations
Go Facts
Mammals
Sparklers
2.4 - 1
Zac’s Story
Gigglers
2.4 - 2
Computer Virus
Wonder Wits
2.4 - 3
Game Plan
2.3 - 10
2.4 - 4 Haikus
2.4 - 5 The Fox and the Grapes
2.4 - 6
2.4 - 7
2.4 - 8
2.4 - 9
2.4 - 10
Go Facts
Wet
Go Facts
Farms
Brainwaves
Fighter Planes
Go Facts
Healthy Eating
Go Facts
Clothes
F
doze, furious, gnat, raged, swipe
NF
erosion, fossilised, minerals, preserve, remains,
sediment
NF
compass, injected, invention, satellite, sextant
NF
canal, cargo, harbour, port
NF
address, birthday, memorial, really, sleepover
NF
F
Keywords
Finding inferences
It’s not there
Words in context
Fact or opinion
Labels
Drawing
conclusions
cycle, develop, mammal, suckle
Making inferences
Word wizard
Words in context
champion, coach, deal, rather, sweat
Making inferences
It’s not there
Fact or opinion?
F
assignment, beg, busy, peer, whole
F
bound, cosmic, future, power, special
F
claim, firefly, giant, hummingbird, passes, still
F
Who, what, where
and when?
Compare and
contrast
Drawing
conclusions
Drawing
conclusions
exhausted, leap, plump, snarl, starve, wonderful
NF
mammal, prey, reptile, stalk, weigh
NF
orchard, produce, prune, tropical, vine
NF
decision, detonate, eject, survive, system
NF
allergic, dairy, nutritious, soybeans, vitamins
NF
completely, swimwear, practical, shocking,
throughout
F = Fiction NF = nonfiction
Who, what, where
and when?
Compare and
contrast
Fact or opinion
Main idea and
details
Drawing
conclusions
Who, what, where
and when?
Sequencing events
Compare and
contrast
Drawing
conclusions
Word wizard
Labels
Words in context
Drawing
conclusions
Making
connections
Making
inferences
Blankety blanks
Point of view
Word wizard
Picture this
sentence
It’s not there
Words in context
Labels
Blankety blanks
Word wizard
Making
inferences
Picture this
sentence
Pictures have
feelings too
For Teachers
2.1 - 7
Go Facts
Summer
Go Facts
Dry
Go Facts
Trains
Go Facts
Bread
Go Facts
Cooking and Change
Gigglers
Take Me To Your Leader
Sparklers
Mandy Made Me Do it
Gigglers
Saving Greedy Guts
The Courtship of the YonghyBonghy-Bo
Reading level 15-18
Cover
Story
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Comprehension Lessons Overview
Comprehension Gym level 5.1-5.4
Lesson Extract Book Title
Laser Beams
5.1 - 1
Above and Below
Laser Beams
5.1 - 2
Just call Me Jungle Boy
Highlights
5.1 - 3
Into the Goblin Deep
5.1 - 4 Book review
5.1 - 5
The Wolf and the Seven
Little Kids
For Teachers
5.1 - 6 Blaxland Journal
Go Facts
5.1 - 7
Gold
Go Facts
5.1 - 8
Fitness
5.1 - 9 Press Release
5.1 - 10
Go Facts
Modern Wonders
Laser Beams
Runaway
Laser Beams
5.2 - 2
Chatroom Trap
5.2 - 1
Reading age 9-10
Cover
Dictionary
story
ancestors, boulder, commence,
F
damp, destroy, destruction, scold
behave, dehydrated, explain,
F
overalls, suggest
Australasians’ Glorious
5.4 - 6
Entry Into War
Go Facts
5.4 - 7
Natural Wonders
Go Facts
5.4 - 8
Body Systems
Blankety blanks
Audience and
purpose
Drawing
conclusions
Fact or opinion?
Word building
Key words
Who, what, where
and when?
Making inferences
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Cause and effect
Words in context
Word building
Making
connections
Main idea and
details
Talk, shout and
whisper
Blankety blanks
Figure it out
Audience and
purpose
Word building
Sequencing events
Blankety blanks
Cause and effect
Making inferences
Word wizard
Is it relevant?
Picture this
sentence
Drawing
conclusions
Word building
Is it relevant?
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Key words
Who, what, where
and when?
Making inferences
Word building
Key words
Point of view
Drawing
conclusions
Audience and
purpose
Words in context
Cause and effect
Word wizard
Word building
Blankety blanks
fare, hurl, scan, scurvy, weevil, wince
Making inferences
Word trees
Words in context
blunder, commotion, hubbub,
indicate, fire-escape
attic, beam, grocer, porridge, shame,
valued
Talk, shout and
whisper
Who, what, where
and when?
Picture this
sentence
Sequencing events
Drawing
conclusions
Blankety blanks
Figure it out
Point of view
Key words
Is it relevant?
Cause and effect
Words in context
Fact or opinion?
Word building
Word trees
Drawing
conclusions
Audience and
purpose
Word wizard
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
Words in context
NF
NF
NF
F
F
F
NF
NF
F
F
F
F
5.4 - 5 The Emperor’s New Clothes
Words in context
Making inferences
5.3 - 5 The Goblin and the Grocer
5.4 - 4 Coffee Creek
Word building
Picture this
sentence
F
5.4 - 3
Who, what, where
and when?
Cause and effect
NF
5.3 - 4 The Ghost Breaker
5.4 - 2
Key words
Audience and
purpose
Who, what, where
and when?
NF
NF
5.4 - 1
Point of view
Drawing
conclusions
5.2 - 10 Chat room discussion
5.3 - 10
Blankety blanks
Compare and
contrast
Main idea and
details
NF
5.3 - 9
Word wizard
Drawing
conclusions
endeavour, ford, laden, pasture,
preceding, subsequent, behave
benefit, corrupt, employ, indigenous,
mercury, vital
approximate, procedure, record,
responds, steady
consumer, database, deceased,
dividends, frequently, misplaced,
policy, reunite
estate, paradise, pavilion, phoenix,
picturesque, sacred, samurai,
shogun
bait, figure, focus, rasping, rhythm,
stash, strain
compliment, exclaimed, glared,
identity, miserable
altitude, archaeology, expert,
invitation, invite, longstanding, moai,
phenomenon, remote, turbulence
bellows, brawny, chaff, forge, sexton,
sinewy, sledge, smithy
crow, fortune, lash, rascal, wail,
weary
authority, immense, plume, sightseer,
tremor
collectively, massive, nautical, rapidly,
ruin, torrential, tropics
emission, emit, fossil fuel,
greenhouse gases, nucleus,
radioactivity, toxic
fossil fuel, greenhouse gas, invest,
renewable, reserve, source
accepting, confirm, consider, coverup, evidence, existence, probability,
relate
actually, decision, erupt, resentment,
uneasy
pleasantries, portable, shuffle,
sinister, traitor
Go Facts
Renewable Resources
5.3 - 8
Point of view
Making inferences
5.2 - 9
5.3 - 7
Word building
Sequencing events
NF
5.3 - 6
Making inferences
Who, what, where
and when?
bleat, deceive, gruff, kid, lair
Go Facts
Technological Wonders
Go Facts
Body Systems
Go Facts
Endangered Animals
Go Facts
Earthquake
Go Facts Technological
Wonders
Go Facts
Renewable Resources
Laser Beams
Operation Green Thumbs
Treasure Trackers
Decoding Mayan Marvels
Treasure Trackers
Quest for the Cup
Cause and effect
F
5.2 - 8
Laser Beams
Backstage Betrayal
Treasure Trackers
5.3 - 2
Egyptian Queen
Treasure Trackers
5.3 - 3
Diving for the Ghost Galleon
Words in context
F
F
5.3 - 1
Part 6
Mind your
behaviour!
Picture this
sentence
backdrop, bulletin, engrossing,
intriguing, rejection, thought
provoking
5.2 - 4 The Village Blacksmith
Go Facts
5.2 - 6
Volcano
Go Facts
5.2 - 7
Wild Weather
Part 5
Drawing
conclusions
avoid, portal, sprite, treachery, truce
F
5.2 - 5 The Four Musicians
Part 4
F
Treasure Trackers
Racing for the Birdman
5.2 - 3
Part 3
Compare and
contrast
NF
NF
NF
NF
blur, condition, convert, source
Onomatopoeia and Drawing
alliteration
conclusions
Talk, shout and
Point of view
whisper
Making inferences
Who, what, where
and when?
Main idea and
details
Who, what, where
and when?
Main idea and
details
Point of view
ability, colony, severely, threatened,
Making inferences
transport
commercial, displace, occur, release, Who, what, where
unleash, violent
and when?
Picture this
masking tape, position, transparent
sentence
Drawing
conclusions
Mind your
behaviour!
Making
connections
Who, what, where
and when?
Word trees
Word wizard
NF
connect, convert, emit, grid, location
Fact or opinion?
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
F
assignment, confidence, expenses,
stammer, undercover
Who, what, where
and when?
Audience and
purpose
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Audience and
purpose
Word wizard
Making inferences
Word building
Blankety blanks
Words in context
F
mention, muffled, tablet, weathered
F
Grail, hesitate, plead, quest,
stagnant, stun
Talk, shout and
whisper
Main idea and
details
Picture this
sentence
F
chorister, quell, reveal, sorbet, stalls
Figure it out
approval, looms, official, strode,
traders, weave
arouse, grim, hitch, ordeal,
rendezvous, wane
ethnic, expedition, geographer,
relied, summit,
complex, glial cells, hemisphere,
membrane, neuron, role, skeletal
consultant, consumer, policy, reject,
resolve
arched, cloned, evolve, extinct,
frostbite, recent, reserve, theory
F
NF
NF
NF
5.4 - 9 Letter of complaint
NF
Brainwaves
5.4 - 10
On the Edge of Extinction
NF
Cause and effect
Who, what, where
and when?
Compare and
contrast
Talk, shout and
whisper
Drawing
conclusions
Making
connections
Drawing
conclusions
Cause and effect
Key words
Main idea and
details
Word wizard
Is it relevant?
Fact or opinion?
Making inferences
Word trees
Compare and
contrast
Who, what, where
and when?
Making
connections
Blankety blanks
Word building
Is it relevant?
Labels
F = Fiction NF = nonfiction
Point of view
Audience and
purpose
Drawing
conclusions
Words in context
Key words
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Comprehension Lessons Overview
Comprehension Gym level 6.1-6.4
Level
Extract Book Title
Treasure Trackers
6.1 - 1
On the Trail of the Golden Man
Laser Beams
6.1 - 2
In the Clear
Treasure Trackers
6.1 -3
Digging for Buried Treasure
6.1 - 4 Station Kuku
6.1 - 5
6.1 - 6
6.1 - 8
6.1 - 9 Proceed with Caution
Go Facts
6.1 - 10
Our Future in Space
Laser Beams
6.2 - 1
Teacher’s Pet
Laser Beams
6.2 - 2
The Plight of E.Hammond
Figure it out
Making inferences
F
frayed, gaze, encourage, clench
Point of view
Figure it out
innards, snoop, snarl, unsuspecting
Talk, shout and
whisper
Main idea and
details
Audience and
purpose
F
F
F
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
F
F
6.2 - 4 Sunglasses
F
6.2 - 8 Working the Land
6.2 - 9 Advertisements
6.2 - 10
6.3 - 1
6.3 - 2
6.3 -3
Go Facts
Universe
Laser Beams
Eye of the Future
Treasure Trackers
Saving Atlantis
Remarks by the President
Pardoning the Turkey
6.3 - 4 I am Jack
6.3 - 5 The Storytelling Stone
F
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
F
F
NF
F
F
Go Facts
6.3 - 6
Exploring Space
NF
6.3 - 7 Tutankhamun discovery
NF
6.3 - 8
On The Job
Trauma Alert
6.3 - 9 Community Survey
6.3 - 10
Go Facts
Water
Laser Beams
Assignment Fiasco
Laser Beams
6.4 - 2
The Complicator
6.4 - 1
6.4 - 3 Robin Hood (extract)
NF
NF
NF
F
F
F
6.4 - 4 The Lake Isle of Innisfree
F
6.4 - 5 Daedalus and Icarus
F
6.4 - 6 Out Now!
Go Facts
6.4 - 7
Recycling
Go Facts
6.4 - 8
Conservation
6.4 - 9 Joseph Banks Journal
6.4 - 10 Ready for Take-Off
Part 4
eerie, fidgety, fascinating, matter
F
Why Parrots Only Repeat
What People Say
Go Facts
6.2 - 6
Our Future in Space
Go Facts
6.2 - 7
Conservation
Part 3
F
6.2 - 3 The Black Velvet Band
6.2 - 5
Dictionary
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
vast, unconscious, attendant,
molasses, tandem
shiver, taunt, jab, force, grumpily,
hobble, revenge
industrialised, access, fetch,
sewerage, sanitation
react, presentation, culinary,
marinated, indication, chives
symbol, pesticide, contaminate,
status, clutch
opinion, development, lap, former,
pier, industrial, retail, brim, generous
Making inferences
Sequencing events
Cause and effect
Compare and
contrast
Drawing
conclusions
Picture this
sentence
Drawing
conclusions
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Figure it out
pole, enclosed, site, install, opponent Making inferences
glared, scoff, detention, ought, wad,
squat
applicant, queue, odour, ridiculous,
solution, employ, bob, rummage
apprenticed, bound, misfortune, spy,
damsel
tinted, slick, bogong moth, orb,
instead
avoid, innocent, plead, realise,
warning
orbit, former, cosmonaut, unmanned,
conduct, dock
convenient, density, discarded,
marine, tract, landfill
perennial, sucker, maintain, fungal,
crucial, dedicated, exotic
lifestyle, campaign, restoration,
client, penalty, menace, aggressive
depends, halo, particle, fusion,
previous
ecstatic, coincidence, confident,
base, business
world-renowned, rubble, monstrous
gobble, fault, mercy, pardon,
humbled, intervention, brethren
professional, adjust, graft, mimic,
irritate, encounter
wonder, creature, spellbound,
legend, Seneca
concentrate, eject, devote, lunar,
module
feverishly, breach, accordance,
procure, subterranean, effigy,
oviform, translucent
register, assess, vital, history,
diagnosis, referral
household, anonymous, confidential,
relevant, networks, acquaintance,
blended
atmosphere, vapour, evaporate,
transpire, condense, precipitation,
infiltration, eventually
actually, erupt, evacuate, unleash,
corridor, halt, seep, wheeze
complicate, simplify, shin, strategy,
lunatic
jovial, lusty, forth, pasty, worthy,
courteous, latter, brook
glade, glimmer, core, wattles, linnet
master, craftsmith, labyrinth,
doomed, thrill, grief
oversee, ensure, publication,
freelancer, stylist, profile, invoice
blender, mesh, embed, pulp,
horizontal
convenient, density, discarded,
marine, tract, landfill
ebb, fore, league, circumstance,
ballast, alacrity, oath, pinnace
specific, aviation, agency, surveying,
accrue, aerial
Talk, shout and
whisper
Who, what, where
and when?
Drawing
conclusions
Similes and
metaphors
Point of view
Compare and
contrast
Main idea and
details
Part 5
Who, what, where
and when?
Drawing
conclusions
Part 6
Word wizard
Word building
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Key words
Mind your
behaviour!
Word wizard
Word trees
Word building
Is it relevant?
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Key words
Making
connections
Word wizard
Fact or opinion?
Word trees
Blankety blanks
Word building
Main idea and
details
Pictures have
feelings too
Audience and
purpose
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Compare and
contrast
Onomatopoeia and
alliteration
Who, what, where
and when?
Drawing
conclusions
Audience and
purpose
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
Is it relevant?
Drawing
conclusions
Compare and
contrast
Picture this
sentence
Audience and
purpose
Picture this
sentence
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
Word building
Point of view
Making inferences
Key words
Fact or opinion?
Word trees
Words in context
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
Word wizard
Drawing
conclusions
Point of view
Word building
Compare and
contrast
Making inferences
Audience and
purpose
Key words
Who, what, where
and when?
Cause and effect
Drawing
conclusions
Words in context
Making inferences
Compare and
contrast
Blankety blanks
Word building
Point of view
Fact or opinion?
Audience and
purpose
Word wizard
Drawing
conclusions
Cause and effect
Is it relevant?
Words in context
Cause and effect
Key words
Point of view
Word building
Blankety blanks
Word wizard
Sequencing events
Who, what, where
and when?
Drawing
conclusions
Main idea and
details
Talk, shout and
whisper
Who, what, where
and when?
Main idea and
details
Sequencing events
Who, what, where
and when?
Main idea and
details
Making inferences
Figure it out
Point of view
Making inferences
Talk, shout and
whisper
Mind your
behaviour!
Making
connections
Who, what, where
and when?
Audience and
purpose
Drawing
conclusions
Compare and
contrast
Audience and
purpose
Words in context
Key words
Words in context
Word wizard
Word building
Key words
Word trees
Words in context
Word wizard
Word trees
Sequencing events
Cause and effect
Is it relevant?
Making inferences
Labels
Sequencing events
Compare and
contrast
Drawing
conclusions
Word trees
Word wizard
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Making
connections
Words in context
Drawing
conclusions
Picture this
sentence
Is it relevant?
Word building
F = Fiction NF = nonfiction
Words in context
Key words
Word building
For Teachers
6.1 - 7
How the Kangaroo
got its tail
Go Facts
Water
On The Job
What’s Cooking?
Go Facts
Endangered Animals
Reading age 10-11
Cover
Story
8
Comprehension Lessons Overview
Comprehension Gym level 3.1-3.4
Level Extract Book Title
Gigglers
3.1 - 1
Shugg’s Pet Octopus
Gigglers
3.1 - 2
No Problem
Sparklers
3.1 - 3
Kalo Li’s New Country
For Teachers
3.1 - 4 The Lazy Tortoise
Go Facts
3.1 - 5
Trees
Go Facts
3.1 - 6
Plants as Food
Go Facts
3.1 - 7
Grasslands
Reading age 7.5-8.5
Cover
Story
F
F
F
Sequencing events
NF
cycle, reproduce, shoot, sapling, mature
Picture this sentence Key words
NF
chain, carnivore, connect, habitat, prey
Drawing conclusions Word trees
NF
root, unravel, loose, remove, absorb
Picture this sentence Words in context
spatula, rack, syrup, ingredients
Who, what, where
and when?
Blankety blanks
hoax, phrase, exhibit, fake, incredible, exotic
Cause and effect
It’s not there
NF
3.1 - 10 Storylands Readers’ Theatre 3
F
3.2 - 1 Cinquains
F
Brainwaves
3.2 - 2
It’s a Mystery
NF
3.2 - 3 TV schedule and review
NF
3.2 - 6 The North Wind and the Sun
3.2 - 7
3.2 - 8
3.2 - 9
3.2 - 10
3.3 - 1
3.3 - 2
3.3 - 3
3.3 - 4
Gigglers
Invisi-pets
Gigglers
Toothless
Go Facts
Forests
Go Facts
Marsupials
Brainwaves
Monsters
Go Facts
Flowers
Go Facts
Deserts
Sparklers
Chocolate Chuckles
3.3 - 5 Drama Script Fairy’s Wings
Sparklers
Wally the Water Dragon
Gigglers
3.3 - 7
ellow-bellied Goalie
3.3 - 6
3.3 - 8 How Owl Got His Feathers
Go Facts
3.3 - 9
Media
Go Facts
3.3 - 10
Drama
3.4 - 1 The First Snowstorm
Sparklers
The Illawarry Cassary
SWAT
3.4 - 3
London
Gigglers
3.4 - 4
Hedgehogs in the City
Brainwaves
3.4 - 5
Plants That Bite Back
3.4 - 2
3.4 - 6 Why Bear Has a Stumpy Tail
Go Facts
3.4 - 7
Mountains
Go Facts
3.4 - 8
Visual Arts
3.4 - 9 Tales of Invention
3.4 - 10 Limericks
Words in context
Picture this
sentence
normal, wonderful, expensive, chef, strict
NF
Sparklers
The Fine Line
greedy, includes, slave, favourite, wonder
Part 4
heron, skink, demanded, plod, managed, snug,
furious, swarm, filthy, ditch
Brainwaves
3.1 - 9
Hoaxes, Fibs and Fakes
3.2 - 5
snatch, strange, sailed, index finger
Part 3
Talk, shout and
whisper
Main idea and
details
F
3.1 - 8 Anzac Biscuits
3.2 - 4 Posters
Dictionary
NF
Drawing conclusions Labels
starboard, bow, seadogs, fellow, sneering, board, Talk, shout and
decks
whisper
Main idea and
patience, gum, strike, slurp, loopy
details
commit, forensic, solve, suspect, evidence,
Making inferences
support, analyse
review, admiral, foreign, animation, detailed,
Compare and
recommended, respond
contrast
Word wizard
Point of view
Words in context
Key words
Word wizard
fruit, vegetable, local, thigh, legend, physical
Fact or opinion?
Blankety blanks
F
security, main, base, dizzy, fine, glumly
Key words
F
amazing, powers, prove, obviously, decide,
continue
Pictures have
feelings too
Cause and effect
Words in context
Word wizard
Part 5
Drawing
conclusions
Who, what, where
and when?
Point of view
Talk, shout and
whisper
Who, what, where
and when?
Compare and
contrast
Making
inferences
Making
inferences
Fact or opinion?
Drawing
conclusions
Onomatopoeia
and alliteration
Compare and
contrast
Point of view
Drawing
conclusions
Who, what, where
and when?
Main idea and
details
Making
inferences
F
protective, visible, guinea pig, creature, peer
Talk, shout and
whisper
F
paddle, breaking, shore, surf, gigantic
Sequencing events
Words in context
Point of view
NF
rainforest, annual, canopy, layer, twig
Audience and
purpose
Key words
Drawing
conclusions
NF
marsupial, undeveloped, pouch, attach, gestation Making inferences
Blankety blanks
Fact or opinion?
NF
imagine, curse, disturb, relative, mummy
Who, what, where
and when?
Word building
Drawing
conclusions
NF
shrub, except, conifer, vine, nectar
Finding inferences
Word trees
Words in context
NF
desert, act, insulator, soil, thermometer
Who, what, where
and when?
Talk, shout and
whisper
Blankety blanks
Cause and effect
Onomatopoeia
and alliteration
Drawing
conclusions
Compare and
contrast
Making
inferences
F
tide, flecked, pottery, upset, baking soda, froth
F
engage, torment, exit, dialogue, propeller, version Sequencing events
F
snout, stream, salamander, handsome, algae
F
F
NF
NF
F
horrible, attack, aced, jeer, utterly, shove
Who, what, where
and when?
Point of view
Labels
Onomatopoeia
and alliteration
decide, grand, sigh, fine, pass, proudly
Making connections Key words
animated, image, model, clay, scene
Pictures have
feelings too
audition, director, crew, hire, memorise, script,
rehearsal
farewell, flakes, pleasure, hearth, absorbed,
celebration
Word wizard
Picture this sentence Blankety blanks
Point of view
F
dandruff, eyeball, antique, wardrobe, bluff, realise
F
cathedral, spire, spiked, pierced, deserve, mean,
tremble
Who, what, where
and when?
Talk, shout and
whisper
F
slimy, hurtle, grinding, gritty, swivel
Word building
NF
Word building
Similes and
metaphors
Words in context
Cause and effect
Word wizard
Making
inferences
Onomatopoeia
and alliteration
trigger, swamp, carnivorous, pollen, pitcher
Cause and effect
F
string, snapped, stick, tug, stumpy,
Drawing conclusions Words in context
NF
survive, possible, den, burrow, rate
Word building
Picture this
sentence
NF
famous, artist, squirted, laid, delicate
Fact or opinion?
Blankety blanks
series, telegraph, records, declare
Drawing conclusions Words in context
resemble, purchase, suppose, remarkable,
placid, relinquish
Audience and
purpose
NF
F
F = Fiction NF = nonfiction
Words in context
Main idea and
details
Drawing
conclusions
Who, what, where
and when?
Main idea and
details
Word wizard
Key words
Captions
Main idea and
details
Sequencing
events
Who, what, where
and when?
Making
inferences
Audience and
purpose
Making
inferences
9
Comprehension Lessons Overview
Comprehension Gym level 4.1-4.5
Lesson Extract Book Title
Gigglers
4.1 - 1
The Goats
Gigglers
4.1 - 2
Getting Rid of Wrinkles
Reading age 8-9
Cover
Dictionary
story
approach, length, wonderful,
F
soothing, canvas
F
wail, share, bathe, skid
4.1 - 3 SWAT Tokyo
F
heart, amazement, polite, celebrate
4.1 - 4 Tiddalik
F
Dreamtime, billabong, creek, several
F
drought, realise, plead, warning,
business
4.1 - 5
4.1 - 6
4.1 - 8
4.1 - 9 Letter to the Editor
Go Facts
Materials
Sparklers
4.2 - 1
Feral and Spam
Sparklers
4.2 - 2
Isabella
Laser Beams
4.2 - 3
Caught in the Act
4.1 - 10
4.2 - 4 Two Old Crows
4.2 - 5 Two Brothers, Two Rewards
Go Facts
Antarctica
Go Facts
4.2 - 7
Energy
Go Facts
4.2 - 8
The Arctic
4.2 - 6
4.2 - 9 Advertisements
Go Facts
Simple Machines
Sparklers
4.3 - 1
Kevin’s Echidna
Laser Beams
4.3 - 2
Buzz, the Computer Man
Laser Beams
4.3 - 3
Creaky House Club
4.2 - 10
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
F
Fact or opinion?
Point of view
Word trees
Words in context
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Word building
Words in context
Audience and
purpose
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
Labels
Point of view
Word wizard
Audience and
purpose
Word building
Blankety blanks
Word trees
Point of view
Making inferences
Words in context
Labels
Cause and effect
Blankety blanks
Word wizard
Drawing
conclusions
Onomatopoeia and
alliteration
Key words
Sequencing events
Fact or opinion?
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Main idea and
details
Word wizard
Drawing
conclusions
Picture this
sentence
Audience and
purpose
Word building
Blankety blanks
Cause and effect
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Audience and
purpose
Drawing
conclusions
Who, what, where
and when?
Word wizard
Fact or opinion?
Word trees
Making inferences
Blankety blanks
Words in context
Point of view
Word building
Cause and effect
Key words
Audience and
purpose
Word wizard
Word building
Who, what, where
and when?
cause, mutter, stutter, utter, effect
F
Cause and effect
Sequencing events
F
F
Pictures have
feelings too
Who, what, where
and when?
F
NF
Words in context
Fact or opinion?
jury, innocent, self-esteem,
convincing, sentence
NF
Word wizard
Making inferences
attitude, current, combustion,
statistic, concern, convenor, impact
thread, allow, absorb, resist, bale,
properties
downpour, tingle, beat, rigging
NF
Word building
blubber, balance, brood, pouch
F
NF
Sequencing events
Part 6
Main idea and
details
Compare and
contrast
feral, romance, simple, instead
NF
Compare and
contrast
Talk, shout and
whisper
Drawing
conclusions
Part 5
Picture this
provide, shelter, belongings, private
sentence
skeleton, protect, numerous, surface, Who, what, where
common, attract, weapons, swarm
and when?
F
F
Making inferences
Part 4
Who, what, where
and when?
Similes and
metaphors
nursed, sprouted, fortune, slingshot,
reward
wilderness, wildlife, habitat, mineral,
fragile, extract
miniature, experiment, filing, static,
lightning
Drawing
conclusions
Pictures have
feelings too
Main idea and
details
Talk, shout and
whisper
Who, what, where
and when?
exploration, global, tundra
Point of view
naturally, filtered, sourced, extreme,
professional, quotes, removal, rage
occur, require, screw, wedge, pulley,
axle
lumber, edible, wary, focus, amble,
smother
expect, program, ferret, certain,
obvious
narrator, impress, lord, famine,
blame
Audience and
purpose
Main idea and
details
Making
connections
Who, what, where
and when?
Compare and
contrast
Talk, shout and
whisper
level, fade, thrash
Similes and
metaphors
Drawing
conclusions
Main idea and
details
Making
connections
Drawing
conclusions
4.3- 4 Woman and the Corn
F
4.3 - 5 The Young Lion King
F
wise, orderly, trusted, howled
Cause and effect
NF
energy, combination, produce,
matter, acting, tornado
Compare and
contrast
Cause and effect
NF
crest, terrible, destruction, create
Cause and effect
Sequencing events
Making inferences
Blankety blanks
architecture, react, museum,
compare, style, refresh, modern
phenomena, attribute, clinch, align,
err, caution, familiar
Who, what, where
and when?
Similes and
metaphors
Main idea and
details
Picture this
sentence
Point of view
Drawing
conclusions
Labels
Point of view
Cause and effect
Word building
Making inferences
Key words
Blankety blanks
4.3 - 6
4.3 - 7
4.3 - 8
4.3 - 9
4.3 - 10
4.4 - 1
4.4 - 2
4.4 - 3
Go Facts
Forces
Go Facts
People and the Sea
Go Facts
Architecture
How Big Is Your Carbon
Footprint?
Go Facts
Coral Reefs
Laser Beams
On Our Way to Centauri
Laser Beams
Lure
Laser Beams
Bushwacked
NF
NF
NF
F
F
F
polyp, algae, erosion
hydroponic, bland, economical,
connect
keen, pod, stranded, occasionally,
offer
charcoal, crisp, admit, sear, pitch,
gurgle
4.4 - 4 The Opal Miner
F
brittle, arid, rare, probe, fragment
4.4 - 5 The Eagle and the Spider
F
soar, perch, airs, depths, gust
4.4 - 6
4.4 - 7
4.4 - 8
4.4 - 9
4.4 - 10
Go Facts
Engineering Feats
Go Facts
Oceans
Brainwaves
To the Limit
Go Facts
Technological Wonders
Braiwaves
Biggest, Highest, Fastest
NF
NF
NF
NF
NF
boring, case, link, reborn
jagged, constant, granite, shoreline
determination, endurance,
painstaking, device, technique
antibiotic, mould, substance,
conduct, potential
category, parasite, launch, incredible,
predator, mites
Point of view
Main idea and
details
Drawing
conclusions
Talk, shout and
whisper
Making inferences
Cause and effect
Fact or opinion?
Compare and
contrast
Point of view
F = Fiction NF = nonfiction
Main idea and
details
Audience and
purpose
Who, what, where
Words in context
and when?
Audience and
Making inferences
purpose
Onomatopoeia and
Making inferences
alliteration
Audience and
Cause and effect
purpose
Compare and
Word trees
contrast
Who, what, where
Word wizard
and when?
Drawing
conclusions
Main idea and
details
Who, what, where
and when?
Drawing
conclusions
Words in context
Word wizard
Drawing
conclusions
Word wizard
Words in context
Blankety blanks
Word building
Word trees
Making
connections
Word building
Making inferences
Words in context
Picture this
sentence
Main idea and
details
Blankety blanks
Key words
For Teachers
4.1 - 7
The Turtle Who Couldn’t
Stop Talking
Go Facts
Homes
Go Facts
Sea Life
Go Facts
Polar Animals
Part 3
10
For Students
Library Books
The Reading Eggspress Library has more than 1000 levelled fiction and non-fiction e-books including
illustrated chapter books, full colour nonfiction books and a range of classics, with an online reading quiz
included for each title. Children can ‘fave’ a book, bookmark where they are up to and rate each book.
Reports will show how many books students have read, type of book, word length and students’ quiz
scores. The totals provide an excellent overview of a student’s progress – books read, total words read,
reading age and quiz average.
New books are added to the Library regularly. To view a complete up-to-date list of the books currently in
the Library, visit http://static.3plearning.com/readingeggs/ABC-Reading-Eggspress-Library-Books.pdf.
Series:
ABC
Series:
First Flight
No. of titles: 42
Ages: 7, 8 & 10
No. of titles: 10
Ages: 6
Series:
Boffin Boy
Series:
Funny Photo
Phonics
No. of titles: 12
Ages: 6
No. of titles: 30
Ages: 5
Series:
Brainwaves
Series:
Gigglers
No. of titles: 34
Ages: 7 & 8
No. of titles: 102
Ages: 6 - 8
Series:
Dangerous
Games
Series:
Go Facts
No. of titles: 8
Ages: 8
No. of titles: 143
Ages: 5 - 10
Series:
Dark Flight
Series:
Harmony and
Understanding
No. of titles: 28
Ages: 6 & 7
No. of titles: 30
Ages: 8
Series:
Fair Tales
Series:
Health and
Understanding
No. of titles: 90
Ages: 9 -12
No. of titles: 24
Ages: 8
11
Series:
Star Struck
No. of titles: 27
Ages: 11 & 12
No. of titles: 77
Ages: 6 - 8
Series:
Laser Beams
Series:
Starchasers
No. of titles: 32
Ages: 9 & 10
No. of titles: 6
Ages: 8
Series:
On The Job
Series:
Storylands
No. of titles: 20
Ages: 9 & 10
No. of titles: 194
Ages: 5 & 7
Series:
Poetry
Series:
Targeting Maths
Literacy
No. of titles: 6
Ages: 7, 8, 10, 11
No. of titles: 67
Ages: 5 - 7
Series:
Reading Quest
Series:
The Matt Merton
Mysteries
No. of titles: 24
Ages: 10
No. of titles: 8
Ages: 11
Series:
Rex Jones
Series:
Treasure
Trackers
No. of titles: 8
Ages: 6
No. of titles: 8
Ages: 10
Series:
Runaway
Series:
Weird Wild And
Wonderful
No. of titles: 10
Ages: 7
No. of titles: 24
Ages: 6 & 7
Series:
Sparklers
Series:
Wonder Wits
No. of titles: 77
Ages: 6 - 8
No. of titles: 8
Ages: 7
For Students
Series:
Highlights