Inspire learning with our magical reading games for kids! Teach Your Monster is proudly not-for-profit.
• 'Teach Your Monster to Read' covers everything from first letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
• 'Teach Your Monster: Reading for Fun' includes over 70 books in a fun world of reading. It gets kids reading more, boosts their confidence and ignites a love of reading.
TEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ:
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 colourful 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.
TEACH YOUR MONSTER: READING FOR FUN
Take your monster to explore a magical village full of fascinating facts and spellbinding stories.
Designed with experts from Roehampton University to get kids reading more, boost their confidence and inspire a lifelong love of reading.
Make your own monster with hundreds of items, make friends with colourful characters and collect over 70 brilliant free ebooks (from Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more) to add to your monster’s bookshelf.
Every interaction involves reading, from following signposts and checking the village noticeboard to reading aloud with librarian Goldspear. The books you discover will help you bake delicious cakes, make the villagers laugh and even find treasure!
The game encourages children of all ages to read for pleasure, helping them build empathy by putting themselves in different characters' shoes.
BIG BENEFITS OF READING FOR FUN!
• Boost children’s confidence with reading.
• Develop children’s empathy, as they put themselves in different characters' shoes and develop an understanding of the wider world.
• Improve children’s understanding of reading for different purposes (such as recipes, signposts and instructions).
TOP FEATURES WITH AN EXPERT PEDAGOGY
Reading for pleasure is proven to transform children’s literacy skills and help them achieve their potential. In this game, children will:
• Try new things: Read different sorts of text, from signposts and instructions, to a whole range of fiction and non-fiction books.
• Play in a world of reading: There’s a whole village to explore, with reading woven into it.
• Achieve: Complete jobs to get rewarded with books for your monster’s bookshelf.
• Be part of a reading community: Make friends and help out villagers with quests that require reading.
• Solve challenges and follow the story: Read recipes to make treats, read the delivery instructions to deliver books and go on quests.
• Choose: Discover new authors, poems, stories and series of children’s books that you’ll love.
• Keep on reading: Collect over 70 brilliant free ebooks from Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more.
What are you waiting for? Take your monster on an epic reading adventure today!
Teach Your Monster is part of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales, charity number 1121957.