Teach Your Monster to Read5.4.4 - App Store

Welcome to Teach Your Monster to Read, the award-winning app that makes learning to read fun and engaging! 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!
TEACH YOUR MONSTER TO READ FEATURES

INTERACTIVE KIDS READING GAMES
. Take your custom-designed monster through educational games that are suitable for ages 3-6.
. Improve letter sound recognition with reading games
. Explore a world of phonics and educational games that teach your child to read sentences
. Easily track their player’s progress to identify areas where their reader may need extra support

PHONICS & READING GAMES DESIGNED BY EXPERTS
. Designed in collaboration with Roehampton University and leading game designers
. Phonics tools and educational games that complement phases 2-5 of UK Government-approved Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programmes
. 3 reading games designed for those in preschool, primary school, kindergarten, and first grade

EDUCATIONAL PLAY AT NO ADDITIONAL COST
. Teach Your Monster to Read is available on iPad and iPhone
. Explore phonics and educational games without in-app purchases, hidden costs, or in-game adverts
. Teach Your Monster to Read supports your child through every step of their reading journey

HEAR FROM TEACHERS AND PARENTS WHO USE OUR READING GAMES

"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
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.

Teach a monster today when you download our educational app!

Teach Monster Games Ltd is a subsidiary of The Usborne Foundation, a registered charity in England and Wales, charity number 1121957.

Version History Keeping things fresh with some 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. We read every single one (and do a happy dance for every 5 star rating)! 5.4.4 Jul 28 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 — we read them all! 5.4.2 09/03/2025 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 — we read them all! 5.4 07/22/2025 Some more small improvements. We want to make this award-winning reading game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every single one! 5.3.6 05/06/2025 Some more small improvements. We want to make this award-winning reading game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every single one! 5.3.5 04/11/2025 Some more small improvements. We want to make this award-winning reading game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every single one! 5.3.4 04/04/2025 Small improvements. We want to make this award-winning reading game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every single one! 5.3.3 03/19/2025 Just a tiny update from our wonderful team this time. We want to make this award-winning reading game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every single one! 5.3.2 02/11/2025 This updated version includes improvements to logging in, a few bug fixes and small optimisations.
We want to make this game as great as it can be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every one! 5.3.1 01/14/2025 This updated version includes improvements to logging in, a few bug fixes and small optimisations.

We want to make this game as great as it can be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think - we read every one! 5.3 01/06/2025 We've improved the experience for new and existing users to get into the action!

We've also added links to help curious minds discover other great Teach Your Monster games, and improved our insights so we can help more people use the game.

We want to make this game as great as it can be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think; we read every one! 5.2 03/11/2024 We've improved the experience for new and existing users to get into the action!
We've also added links to help curious minds discover other great Teach Your Monster games.
We want to make this game as great as it can be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think; we read every one! 5.1 02/13/2024 ◆ The Sign Update

Presenting the Sign Update! We redesigned the sign-up page so that you can dive straight into your reading adventure and save your progress with ease. Patch notes for intrepid readers follow:

▸ Features
• Log in with your Teach Your Monster account
• New users can sign up inside the app

▸ Bug Fixes
• Fixed an issue that could cause players to lose their progress.
• Solved an edge case that caused the game to crash in practice mode.
• Squished a bug that made it impossible to capture trickies.
• The settings menu should now display correctly on all devices.

We want to make this game as great as it can be, so please leave a review and let us know what you think; we read every one! 5.0 07/31/2023 PLAY THE NEW SPACE BLASTER MINIGAME!
• Play the brand new Space Blaster minigame, where you mine the asteroids for fuel to get home. Play this in Practice mode and let us know what you think!
• We’ve added the Lava minigame into the second game ‘Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun with words’
• We’ve also made some improvements including new launch and background screens, new VO and permitting special characters and hyphens for player names.
We want to make this game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review, we read every one! 4.1 11/03/2020 PLAY 2 NEW MINIGAMES!

• Play the brand new minigame where you rescue villagers. Kids love this minigame so much that we've made it the first minigame your monster runs into.
• Head over to 'Practice' mode to race against the duck professor in a jet pack!
• We've also made some bug fixes along the way including a fix for users reporting crashing within Practice mode and 10 Minute Adventure.

We want to make this game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review, we read every one! 4.0.5 04/29/2020 PLAY 2 NEW MINIGAMES!

• Play the brand new minigame where you rescue villagers. Kids love this minigame so much that we've made it the first minigame your monster runs into .
• Head over to 'Practice' mode to race against the duck professor in a jet pack!
• We've also made some small bug fixes along the way.

We want to make this game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review, we read every one! 4.0 04/22/2020 PLAY THE NEW MINIGAME - Can you free the villager from the naughty duck in our brand new minigame? Head over to Practice mode to play today!

ENJOY MAKING YOUR MONSTER - Are you having fun making monsters? The interface has been spruced up a little!

CHECK OUT THE IMPROVEMENTS - Playing on a smaller screen size? We've made GPCs, words and prizes bigger, so that they're easier to see. We've also made a few smaller improvements, fixed a few bugs and added a little music to our main menu.

We want to make this game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review, we read every one! 3.9 03/10/2020 Small improvements to the app.
We want to make this game as great as it can possibly be, so please leave a review, we read every one! 3.8.2 01/07/2020 • A magical Christmas theme has been added! Get a special Santa costume prize in your monster's inventory.

• As voted by you, a new monster called Spike, is now available! Find Spike's monster parts when you make a monster or customise your monster.

• A help button has been added to the home screen to explain a few features.

• We've made the in-game shop appear more regularly so players can spend their hard-earned stars. Don't worry, there are still absolutely no in-app purchases (it's just for fun)!

• Small bugs have been blasted away!

We love to read your success stories and we want to know what you'd like added to the game. We're a non-profit on a mission to improve children's literacy, so we want to make this game as great as it can possibly be.

Please leave a review, we read every one! 3.8.1 12/20/2019 • A magical Christmas theme has been added! Get a special Santa costume prize in your monster's inventory.

• As voted by you, a new monster called Spike, is now available! Find Spike's monster parts when you make a monster or customise your monster.

• A help button has been added to the home screen to explain a few features.

• We've made the in-game shop appear more regularly so players can spend their hard-earned stars. Don't worry, there are still absolutely no in-app purchases (it's just for fun)!

• Small bugs have been blasted away!

We love to read your success stories and we want to know what you'd like added to the game. We're a charity on a mission to improve children's literacy, so we want to make this game as great as it can possibly be.

Please leave a review, we read every one! 3.8 12/09/2019 • As voted by you, a blue tentacled monster has made it's way into the game. You can find these monster body parts when you make a monster or customise your monster during gameplay.
• A thunder of dragons has flown in to our third game. These fire-breathers are spread across many planets, so watch out!
• A beautiful little animation has been added to the start screen, bringing warmth to the welcome.
• The buttons on the title screen are now bigger, making it easier to read them on small devices.
• The way the game exits when the app is closed has been improved. We've increased the time before the game goes back to the main menu, so you can continue where you left off if you've only exited the app for a few moments.
• Small bugs have been blasted away!

We love to read your success stories and we want to know what you’d like added to the game. We are a charity with a mission to improve children's literacy, so we want to make this game as great as it can possibly be. Please leave a review, we read every one! 3.7 11/06/2019 We've made some improvements based on your feedback. Please keep your reviews coming. We read every one!

• A glistening trophy icon will magically appear on your dashboard when you've achieved a new certificate!
• The way the game exits when the app is closed has been improved. It's now easier to continue where you left off if you've only exited the app for a few moments.
• Small bugs have been blasted away!

We love to read your success stories and we want to know what you’d like added to the game, so please leave a review. We are a charity with a mission to improve children's literacy, so we want to make this game as great as it can possibly be. 3.6 09/12/2019 We've made improvements for you. Keep your reviews coming!

• Collectable stars can now be transferred between games. Save them up or spend them in the shop!
• Words are now easier to hear! We know that there can be a whole load of background noise in the home or classroom whilst playing, so we've made the words louder and clearer.
• Help messages have been made a bit clearer and, well... more helpful

We love to read your success stories and we want to know what you’d like added to the game, so please leave a review. As a charity with a mission to improve children's literacy, we want to make this game as great as it can possibly be. 3.5 06/11/2019 Thanks to your feedback and reviews, we’ve made some additions to the app. We read and respond to every review so please keep them coming.

New things in this version:

The new certificates have been brought to life with animation.

The letter sounds have been made more audible.

Typos in the third game’s books have been corrected.

Bugs have been fixed, including one that was causing some users to experience ‘freezing’ at the end of minigames.

Let us know what you think and please leave a review. We love to hear your success stories and want to know what else you’d like us to add to the game. 3.4 04/26/2019 Thanks to your wonderful feedback and reviews, we’ve made some exciting additions to the app. We read and respond to every review, so please keep them coming.

FUN NEW THINGS:

Dress your monster up as a princess, a superhero, a unicorn or a dinosaur!

Win snazzy new certificates for every game your monster completes.

You can now play practice mode with logged in monsters and we’ve also improved the interface to make it easier to jump into the game.

The popular running mini-game has been updated so it’s smoother to play.

There are more exciting prizes in the first game and the stars you collect are now carried across all three games.

Many small bugs have been fixed, including a multi-logout error, a keyboard bug when entering star codes and a proxy-related issue. We’ve also improved our error reporting in case of future ‘monsters in the system’.

Let us know what you think and please leave a review. We love to hear your success stories and want to know what else you’d like us to add to the game. 3.3 02/21/2019