Teach Your Monster to Read Overview
What is Teach Your Monster to Read?
Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning phonics and reading game that helps children learn to read through play. The app is designed in collaboration with leading academics and game designers and covers the first two years of learning to read, from matching letters and sounds to enjoying little books. It is suitable for school and home use and is commonly used in preschool, primary school, kindergarten, and first grade as an interactive teaching resource. The app is developed by Teach Monster Games Ltd., a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales.
Features
- Three extensive games: First Steps, Fun With Words, and Champion Reader
- Covers the first two years of learning to read
- Designed in collaboration with leading academics and game designers
- Complements all synthetic phonics programs used in schools
- Suitable for school and home use
- No in-app purchases, hidden costs, or in-game adverts
- Suitable for ages 3-6
- Available on iPad and iPhone
- Developed by Teach Monster Games Ltd., a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales
- Complements Phases 2-5 of UK Government-approved Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programs
- Parents have seen significant improvements in their children’s literacy within weeks
- Teachers claim it’s a wonderful and captivating classroom tool that helps their students learn to read
- Kids love making their monster and teaching it to read
- Reviews from teachers and parents are overwhelmingly positive.
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Teach Your Monster to Read Pricing Plans
| Duration | Amount (USD) |
|---|---|
| Billed Once | $7.50 |
| Monthly Subscription | $9.99 |
| Yearly Subscription | $0.18 |
**Pricing data is based on average subscription prices reported by Justuseapp.com users..
Product Details and Description of
Teach Your Monster to Read is an award-winning phonics and reading game that’s helped millions of children learn to read. • Parents have seen significant improvements in their children’s literacy within weeks. • Teachers claim it’s a wonderful and captivating classroom tool that helps their students learn to read. • Kids love making their monster and teaching it read. They learn through play. Children create a monster and take it on a magical journey over three extensive games - meeting a host of colorful characters along the way and improving their reading skills as they progress. • Covers the first two years of learning to read, from matching letters and sounds to enjoying little books. • Designed in collaboration with leading academics and game designers. • Complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools. • Suitable for school and home use. • Includes all 3 games! First Steps, Fun With Words and Champion Reader! The game is rigorous and works with any phonics scheme so it’s perfect for use in school and at home. It’s developed in collaboration with leading academics at the University of Roehampton. The app is commonly used in preschool, primary school, kindergarten and first grade as an interactive teaching resource. PART OF 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. TOP FEATURES • Complements Phases 2-5 of UK Government-approved Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programmes. • Absolutely no in-app purchases, hidden costs or in-game adverts. Perfect for kids! • Suitable for ages 3-6. • Designed in collaboration with reading experts from Roehampton University. • Available on iPad and iPhone. REVIEWS FROM TEACHERS AND PARENTS "This game is the absolute best quality phonics game I have come across for educational and fun value." Marie Lewis, Rochdale “My class have reaped loads of benefits from using the programme and the difference in some of their reading skills has been dramatic." Maria Andrews, Foundation Phase Teacher "This is a fabulous game. I'm not kidding when I say that my daughter essentially learned all her letter sounds using First steps, with relatively minimal input from me! Great for parents to practise their letter sounds too." Eleanor Jones Teach Monster Games Ltd is a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales, charity number 1121957.
Top Reviews
By Pregnant falsely
Best phonics and reading app out there
There really isn’t any better app out there. My little one taught himself letters early and quick. This app helped so much as it does not through sight/high frequency words at kids early. Trickies are actual sight words that do not follow phonics rules. They don’t come in until the second stage of the game. My son just turned 4 a month ago and had started level 3 about a week before. The additions and fixes on the app just make it better and better. The early flower run and other course runs are not the best mini games. Timing is too big a part and you can win eventually doing nothing though it will show in your score. I love love love that we went from letters to words and now those very phonics rules and words he uses to read the directions. Usborne you are sitting on a gold mine! Can we get some printed early readers?? We love alphablocks and I’m sure the characters here could make great quick readers!
By Newmum23
Happy mom
I am a homeschooling momma and my 6 year old daughter is loving this app. She keeps telling me how much fun it is. I have noticed her using the sounds she learns during the game, later during story time and lessons. One concern was the limited practice for each sound but the new added practice material is fantastic. I love the ability to pick any 1-6 sounds she needs to work on. I only have 2 issues: 1. is the level of background noise compared to the sound of the letters. Some are difficult to hear. And turns it into a guessing game. And 2. I wish there was a spot to press for them to repeat the word or sound being asked for. I like to try out the game and noticed the third level has this feature but level 2 does not.
By ktlouie875
Son made amazing strides in a short time
My son started playing this game the summer before he began kindergarten, about 15-20 minutes a day. At that time he could identify all of his letters but had no practice with sounding out words. I am AMAZED how fast this game helped him learn to read. At his first parent-teacher conference, his teacher estimated he was reading at a 2nd or 3rd grade level, after only a few months of playing the game. My only criticism would be that since we are American, it was odd to hear him read in an English accent sometimes, so I felt the need to play with him at first to make sure he knew some of the differences in how we pronounce words. He rarely plays anymore but now he can read nearly all the books on his bookshelf.
