ActiveLearn Primary

For students, ActiveLearn Primary is where they log in from the classroom and home to:

• find allocated books and activities
• earn rewards to play games to help students build confidence and success.

Implementation support is available with help topics, support guides and videos.

For families ActiveLearn Primary provides:

• support for home reading
• easy to use and simple access.

Implementation support is available with help topics, support guides and videos.

Bug Club supports the effective and engaging teaching of reading for students in Foundation to Year 6. Every step is reinforced with teaching tools to support modelled whole class reading, guided reading, independent and take-home reading. With Bug Club on ActiveLearn Primary you can:

• search for and filter nearly 400 books by book band, reading level or Fountas & Pinnell level
• find 65 plays broadly aligned to Reading Levels 5-30 where students can also choose to be a character and the audio for that character does not play
• track and report on students’ reading progress based on completion of books and comprehension quizzes
• view and download guided reading notes and blackline masters, curriculum correlation and scope and sequence charts to help with planning, and more.

Find out more about Bug Club and Bug Club Plays to Read.

Bug Club Phonics is a synthetic phonics program that provides everything needed to help students succeed in early reading. ActiveLearn Primary features:

• comprehensive lesson plans with embedded assessments and consolidation
• video animations featuring entertaining Cbeebies Alphablock characters
• interactive whiteboard activities that deliver effective synthetic phonics-based teaching
• over 170 decodable fiction and non-fiction books with embedded quizzes which focus on assessing phonic knowledge
• games to encourage even the most reluctant readers
• tests to help students prepare for the year 1 phonics screening test
• downloadable blackline masters and assessments and curriculum correlation charts to assist with planning, and further classroom resources.

Find out more about Bug Club Phonics.

Rapid is a complete intervention solution for struggling readers who are working behind age-related expectations as well as students with special educational needs.

Rapid Reading is an intervention solution for struggling readers and for students with special education needs. It works by sparking their interest and making reading fun.

Rapid Reading on ActiveLearn Primary includes:

• 320 fiction and non-fiction decodable readers based on reading stages or age with dyslexia-friendly design and fonts
• text starters before reading the eBook
• quizzes reinforce reading activities that are geared towards success.

Rapid Reading also features:

• a Read to me function to demonstrate fluent reading and hook students into the text
• some audio-only instructions to make activities less intimidating and difficult
• audio prompts for individual words to ensure students don't get stuck
• highlighted words or sentences to improve comprehension
  further classroom resources.

Find out more about Rapid Reading.

Rapid is a complete intervention solution for struggling readers who are working behind age-related expectations as well as students with special educational needs.

Rapid Phonics is based on proven pedagogies, designed to improve students’ confidence as well as helping them to read accurately, quickly and with expression.

Rapid Phonics on ActiveLearn Primary includes:

• 56 fully decodable readers based on synthetic phonic steps:
  • Step 1: Alphabet phonemes
  • Step 2: Diagraphs and trigraphs
  • Step 3: Alternative spellings
• a Phonics progression wallchart
• a pronunciation guide to the phonemes and graphemes to support home reading.

Rapid Phonics also features:

• a Read to me function to demonstrate fluent reading and hook students into the text
• some audio-only instructions to make activities less intimidating and difficult
• audio prompts for individual words to ensure students don't get stuck
• highlighted words or sentences to improve comprehension
  further classroom resources.

Find out more about Rapid Phonics. 

You may only trial ActiveLearn Primary once. We recommend making the most of the support available throughout your trial, as well as choosing to trial at a time that will ensure you can get the most out of your experience. Complete the form below or contact your local Education Consultant if you have any questions.

Your colleague can easily add you to their trial, allowing you to set up your own class for the trial period. The video, Adding teachers and students, shows how they can add you to the school trial.

After you have completed the trial request form, it will take up to 2 business days for your trial to be activated. Keep an eye on your inbox and junk or spam folder to ensure you can get started as soon as your trial is activated.

Your local Pearson Education Consultant is here to help. Complete the form below and your local consultant will get in touch and help you decide what will be appropriate for the teachers and learners at your school.

It depends on how many students will access the ActiveLearn platform.

For specific costs, complete the contact form below and your local Education Consultant will get in touch to help you decide what’s most appropriate for your school.

Let’s be honest, things always change. That’s why ActiveLearn Primary subscriptions are based on bands of students who will be accessing the platform. This gives you some flexibility for when student numbers change and ensures your students always have the access they need to keep learning.

Yes, you can buy any combination of print titles, plus a digital subscription to suit your school. For instance, you could purchase Bug Club print books as a level value pack and then a digital subscription to all Bug Club books based on the number of students requiring access.

For young children especially, physical printed books can be useful for developing fine motor skills and for understanding reading conventions, such as holding a book, turning pages and reading from left to right. They can also be useful when technology is not prevalent in the home or for guided reading sessions in the classroom.

A teacher-only subscription lets teachers access all the ActiveLearn Primary guided reading notes and Blackline Masters. Books can also be displayed on an interactive whiteboard or screen for whole class modelling or guided reading sessions.

ActiveLearn Primary works on Mac and PC computers and iPad and Android tablets.

It is not recommended for mobile phones as the screen size does not provide an optimum reading experience.

To ensure your device runs smoothly, you can check the system requirements via the 'Will it work on my computer?' link on the ActiveLearn Primary login page.

Yes, before you first login, you can perform a diagnostic test of your device to check system requirements.

We tend not to recommend ActiveLearn Primary for mobile phones as the screen size is not optimal for reading.

Make sure you allow pop-up blocker settings on your device.

There are a couple of options for technical help with ActiveLearn Primary:

• Getting started with ActiveLearn Primary guides and videos
• In-platform help
• Pearson’s Digital Support Team:
  • email: help@pearson.com.au
  • phone: 1300 473 277
  • live chat