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 ā for children starting to learn phonics through letters and sounds 2. Fun With Words ā for children who are confident with early letter-sound combinations and are starting to read sentences 3. Champion Reader ā 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 UKās 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 itās a wonderful and captivating classroom tool that helps their students learn to read ⢠Parents have seen significant improvements in their childrenās 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 childrenās 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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Jul 21, 2025
Educational
Language
Casual
Single player
Stylized
Cartoon
Monster
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Both my kids (aged 4 and 7) love this game, and the price is very fair for what you get! My only complaint is that the adventure ends š You can keep playing by returning to planets on your own but my daughter lost interest in that. I wish there was another practice reading adventure, as kids can move quite fast through the games/levels, a follow up game that practiced what they learnt (and could be played over and over, to say increase a top score) would be great.
75 people found this review helpful
Val Wilson
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May 6, 2020
This app is amazing. After some abortive attempts at teaching my 5 year old to read at home, she started this game and is now playing it obsessively. It's exactly at the right level for her. She knew letter sounds and was beginning to be able to recognise them in words, but only very occasionally tried reading an unfamiliar word. Now she's had a huge boost in confidence and ability, and recently wrote by herself a 'shopping list' of all her favourite items, completely bonkers spelling but absolutely phonetic (so she hadn't copied the words). She finds reading the longer sentences hard (actually doesn't do it, to be honest), but the app is really forgiving with this and there is always enough positive reinforcement to keep going even when you don't get words right first time. The only comment I have is that we'd like a Scottish version! Some 2-letter sounds only work with an English accent, and I found some of the 'er, ir' sounds really hard to distinguish, so I'm not sure what she's learning there!
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Teach Your Monster
May 18, 2020
Thanks for your review and the feedback, Val!
S A
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December 19, 2020
It's great to come across a game that's British and my daughter (4) finds engaging. I love the idea of a monster on the mission, selecting prizes, the illustrations and personalising the monster... However I find it a little fast paced, 1 letter you select 1 game that they consolidate 3x (twice for the same letter and once for another) and then that level is complete. I'd love for 1 letter, 2 games so consolidated 6x. I also don't like the font used, my daughter thought a G was a C.
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Whatās new
Bug fixes, small updates for the latest OS, and now new users will sign up before jumping in - this helps us protect your progress, offer cross-device play, and give better support if you need it. A few other small improvements too. Love the game? Please leave a review ā we read them all!