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Designed with experts from the UK’s Roehampton University to get kids reading more, Teach Monster – Reading For Fun inspires kids to explore a magical village full of fascinating facts and spellbinding stories.\n\nCustomise your own monster, make friends with colourful characters and collect over 70 free ebooks courtesy of Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more. The game encourages children of all ages to read for pleasure and is perfect to play at home or school, alongside Teach Your Monster to Read or on its own.\n\nThere are hours of reading fun, from following signposts and reading aloud with Goldspear the librarian, to discovering books which help you bake delicious cakes and find treasure. It’s up to you to choose what to explore and when, but hurry, the villagers need your help. Your monster must use all its wisdom, skill and bravery to stop the book-eating goblin from causing chaos in the village and eating all the books!\n\nWHY READING FOR FUN?\n•        Boost your child’s reading confidence \n•        Develop your child’s empathy, as they put themselves in different characters’ shoes and develop an understanding of the wider world\n•        Improve your child’s skills in reading for different purposes, from recipes, to signposts and instructions\n•        Read books with friends.  Choose brand new books, or re-read old favorites  \n•        Create positive screen time for children in a fun environment \n•        Collect over 70 brilliant free ebooks from Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more.\n\nReading for pleasure is a proven method to transform literacy skills and academic performance in children.  The pedagogy of reading for pleasure within this game has been developed in close collaboration with educational experts from the UK’s Roehampton University.\n\nBE PART OF A READING COMMUNITY \n•        Make friends and help out the villagers with quests that require reading\n•        Pop into the village library to read along with Goldspear, Coco and more\n•        Read different kinds of texts, from signposts and instructions to entire fiction and non-fiction books\n•        Complete jobs to get rewarded with books for your monster’s bookshelf\n•        Solve challenges and follow the story as it unfolds, read recipes to make treats, or go on quests to overcome the book-eating goblin.\n•        Discover new authors, poems, stories and a series of children’s books that you’ll love. \n\nCreated by Teach Your Monster, Reading for Fun is part of The Usborne Foundation, a charity founded by children’s publisher, Peter Usborne MBE.  Harnessing research, design and technology, Teach Your Monster is a non-profit organisation that creates playful media to address issues from literacy to health.\n\nWhat are you waiting for? Take your monster on an epic reading adventure today!","facts":{"developer_id":828392049,"developer_url":"https://www.teachyourmonster.org/readingforfun","first_released":"2021-09-27T07:00:00Z","support_url":null,"privacy_url":null,"website_url":null,"app_version":"1.6","release_notes":"◆ The Chapter 5 Update\n\nChapter 5 is here!\nPlay through Days 26–30 and uncover some very suspicious goings-on in the village... Can your monster save the day?\n\nNew book unlocked!\nAdd The Book-Eating Dragon to your monster’s library – an exciting new reward for brave readers!\n\nBug Fix\nWe’ve fixed a login issue affecting some players. 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