Teach Your Monster to Read is the award-winning, phonics and reading game for kids. Enjoyed by over 30 million worldwide, Teach Your Monster to Read is a truly ground-breaking kids reading app that makes learning to read fun for little ones aged between 3-6.
Kids create their own unique monster to take on a magical journey across three reading games, encouraging them to learn to read by improving their skills as they progress while meeting a host of colourful characters along the way. The app also contains a host of minigames, which help children to develop speed and phonics accuracy.
Games 1, 2 and 3 1. First Steps – for children starting to learn phonics through letters and sounds 2. Fun With Words – for children who are confident with early letter-sound combinations and are starting to read sentences 3. Champion Reader – for children who are confidently reading short sentences and know all of the basic letter-sound combinations
Developed in collaboration with leading academics at the UK’s University of Roehampton, Teach Your Monster to Read offers a rigorous program that works with any phonics scheme, making it perfect for use in school or at home.
Why Teach Your Monster to Read?
• Covers the first two years of learning to read, from matching letters and sounds to enjoying little books • Covers everything from phonics to reading full sentences • Designed in collaboration with leading academics to compliment programs used in schools • Teachers claim it’s a wonderful and captivating classroom tool that helps their students learn to read • Parents have seen significant improvements in their children’s literacy within weeks • Kids love learning through play • There are no in-app purchases, hidden costs or in-game adverts
PROCEEDS GO TO THE USBORNE FOUNDATION CHARITY Teach Your Monster to Read has been created by Teach Monster Games Ltd. which is a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation. The Usborne Foundation is a charity founded by children’s publisher, Peter Usborne MBE. Harnessing research, design and technology, we create playful media addressing issues from literacy to health. Funds raised from the game go back into the charity, to help us become sustainable and build new projects.
Teach Monster Games Ltd is a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales (1121957)
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Feb 20, 2025
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I downloaded this because it was in the language learning section, and I love the art style. I was hoping it would be multilingual because learning language through games is much easier for me than basic memorization of flash cards and words. I'd love to see other languages as an option in the future, and I look forward to teaching my monster to read, because I'm still going to play this as an adult.
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Matas Paulikas
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March 12, 2025
Would be a good game, but why show the famous flag colours (very similar) every time a task is completed correctly, which is about every 30 seconds?
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Kyle Maxwell
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February 12, 2025
Edited: I did like this game for helping my kid to learn reading, they were into it. Now they fixed the login so I'm updating my review. Original review: The custom keyboard is so bad I gave up and uninstalled the app. Please let me use a password manager and an accessible keyboard
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Teach Your Monster
February 11, 2025
Hi Kyle, thank you again for your feedback. We have now updated the app to use your device's keyboard, solving this issue. Please update to the latest version to see the changes we have made. We hope you'll find this update helpful and you'll continue enjoying our games. Teach your Monster
What’s new
This updated version includes improvements to logging in, a few bug fixes and small optimisations.
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