Award-Winning Literacy Program Reading Eggs Introduces The All-New Reading Journal

There's an exciting new feature in Reading Eggs. We are proud to announce the all-new Reading Journal has been released to the Reading Eggs program suite, and in the first 24 hours, 17,500 Reading Journals were created, meaning up to 70 are being created every five minutes.

The Reading Journal is an interactive, customizable feature to help children build a stronger connection with the books they read and to encourage them to read for enjoyment. It does this by helping them track their progress and by making the experience of reading a personal one by allowing customization of the Reading Journal.

Children will delight in making the Reading Journal their own, decorating each page with colorful stickers, tapes, and pins. They can also choose a unique journal cover that suits their style with a new decorative theme each month (so far, the unicorn and robot covers are the favorites among users). Most importantly, it helps them show off their achievements so they can feel proud of their reading efforts.

The Reading Journal is designed to help motivate children to read with literacy-linked rewards, celebrate daily reading, and promote children’s ownership of their reading journey. It also promotes and supports children to engage in ‘book talk’ with the option to rate and comment on each book they read.

Additionally, the Reading Journal supports parents, teachers, and students, encouraging reading for pleasure using the ‘Milestones’ feature and the soon to be released ‘Offline Reading’ option.

The ‘Milestones’ feature celebrates and rewards students for the number of days that reading has taken place. Users pass milestones when they read for a set number of days, going up in increments from five days all the way to 200. At these milestones, they receive a virtual sticker pack, a downloadable certificate, and a motivational reading poster.

The Reading Journal celebrates all reading, and each journal page has an option for kids to record what they have read offline, or outside of the program. This optional feature will be added in October.

Why should children use the Reading Journal?

The Reading Journal was created to help foster the love of reading for children. A love of reading has been proven to have a positive impact on test scores, writing ability, comprehension and decision making. In fact, reading for pleasure has been identified by UNESCO as “the single most important thing that will make a child successful in life”.

Additional benefits of reading for pleasure include improved grammar, increased self-confidence, better problem-solving abilities, understanding of other cultures, better general knowledge and mental health, an increase in school engagement, and improved communication with family and friends.