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Our educational phonics and reading games have helped millions of children build essential literacy skills. Create your own monster and embark on a magical journey through interactive games designed for home and school use. With a safe, trusted, and highly recommended approach, Teach Your Monster to Read offers phonics-based reading games for all levels. Teaching through play is what we do best—download today and start your child’s reading adventure!\n\n\nTEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ FEATURES\n\nINTERACTIVE KIDS READING GAMES\n• Take your custom-designed monster through educational games that are suitable for ages 3-6. \n• Improve letter sound recognition with reading games\n• Explore a world of phonics and educational games that teach your child to read sentences\n• Easily track their player’s progress to identify areas where their reader may need extra support\n\nPHONICS & READING GAMES DESIGNED BY EXPERTS\n• Designed in collaboration with Roehampton University and leading game designers\n• Phonics tools and educational games that complement phases 2-5 of UK Government-approved Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programmes\n• 3 reading games designed for those in preschool, primary school, kindergarten, and first grade\n\nEDUCATIONAL PLAY AT NO ADDITIONAL COST\n• Teach Your Monster to Read is available on iPad and iPhone\n• Explore phonics and educational games without in-app purchases, hidden costs, or in-game adverts\n• Teach Your Monster to Read supports your child through every step of their reading journey\n\nHEAR FROM TEACHERS AND PARENTS WHO USE OUR READING  GAMES\n\n\"This game is the absolute best quality phonics game I have come across for educational and fun value.\"\nMarie Lewis, Rochdale\n\n“My class have reaped loads of benefits from using the programme and the difference in some of their reading skills has been dramatic.\"\nMaria Andrews, Foundation Phase Teacher\n\n\"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.\"\nEleanor Jones\n\n\nPART OF THE USBORNE FOUNDATION CHARITY\n\nTeach 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.\n\nTeach a monster today when you download our educational app! \n\nTeach Monster Games Ltd is a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales, charity number 1121957.","facts":{"developer_id":828392049,"developer_url":"https://www.teachyourmonster.org","first_released":"2014-07-23T13:11:42Z","support_url":"https://help.teachyourmonster.org/en/","privacy_url":"https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/privacy-policy","website_url":"https://www.teachyourmonster.org/","app_version":"5.4.9","release_notes":"Keeping things fresh with some more small fixes and updates whilst we prepare a brand new version for you. We want to make this award-winning game even better for you, so please drop us a review to let us know what you think. 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