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Teach Your Monster to Read

Teach Your Monster to Read

Teach Your Monster
GamesEducationAdventureFamily
Rating
★ 4.5127,269 ratings
Price
USD 8.99
Version
5.4.2
Size
134 MB
Age
4+
Released 2014-07-23First seen 2026-05-28App Store →

Screenshots

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Description

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.

What's New

v5.4.2 · 2025-09-03

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!

Details

Developer
Teach Your Monster
Main Category
Education
Version
5.4.2
Version Release
2025-09-03
Initial Release
2014-07-23
Size
134 MB
Age Rating
4+
Price
USD 8.99
Languages
EN
Bundle ID
com.teachyourmonstertoread.tm1
Version Rating
★ 4.51 (27,269)
First Seen
2026-05-28

Metadata updated 2026-06-14

Rank History

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Free Rankings

2026-06-14

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Paid Rankings

2026-06-14
Education#6
All#86

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User Reviews

Latest 12
★★★★Muy mal🇺🇸 US

Me han cobrado sin autorizacion, y no hay manera de borrar la cuenta. He tenido que llamar al banco para bloquearlos.

A-smaM· 2026-05-28
★★★★★Literally taught my kid to read🇺🇸 US

We put this and Teach Your Monster Numbers on an old iPad for our kid as a timed reward for potty training when M&Ms no longer did the trick. 10-20 minutes per successful potty trip. Not only has he had successful potty training, he’s sounding out and spelling words and counting to 100 at age 3. These apps are fun, they’re fun to watch and were fun to play with him when he was figuring out and he still loves them when playing independently. MY ONE REQUEST: to access the settings, I’d love something other than “enter your birth year”. Kiddo has figured out if the number is low enough, he can get in and change settings and he LOVES logging out. Not sure why. There’s no challenge to log out and the challenge to access the settings just isn’t tough enough. Would be great if it were a pin or a somewhat complicated math question.

Aelvery· 2026-05-25
★★★★Great App, But the Subscription Change Feels Unfair🇺🇸 US

Awesome app. My kid has learned a lot from using it and it’s been completely worth the purchase. My only issue is that it’s moving to a subscription model. I already paid for the app, and now if I update it, I’ll lose what I originally purchased. Because of that, I now have to turn off automatic updates on my iPad just to keep the version I paid for. Turning off automatic updates is also pretty annoying because now I have to manually monitor all my apps just to prevent this one app from updating automatically. That feels a little unfair to longtime users who supported the app early on.

Santolife· 2026-05-22
★★★★Outrageous behavior🇺🇸 US

Just found out that this app will be moving to a subscription model and if you paid the already significant price for this app, you’ll still be forced to pay for a subscription to access all features of the app. That’s greedy and outrageous behavior

Alexdjdnfns· 2026-05-22
★★★★Rip off - stealing🇺🇸 US

I paid for access to this app and they are removing it from me to go to a subscription model. This is such a ripoff and a disgrace. What a terrible company. Do not pay them. The quality is mediocre, I recommend any of their competitors.

chuck and fox· 2026-05-21
★★★★Disappointing Update🇺🇸 US

I paid for the original app in full and am pretty frustrated to hear that it is now switching to a subscription model. The app is only giving 45 days notice (which they’re calling “providing this notice well in advance”) and a free trial. I originally really enjoyed this app for gamifying reading for my son but this sudden switch up is really disappointing. So far there’s no offer to compensate in any way for the original purchase for full access. :( I get the need for revenue and further funds to develop/support the game but they’re describing this as “a brand-new version of Teach Your Monster to Read.” Why not keep the original app as free access for the original users who have paid and then release a separate version 2 subscription model with the new features. Why is there the need to take away access to the original product that we’ve paid for? This is so deceptive.

pikaboop· 2026-05-21
★★★★Changing to subscription🇺🇸 US

My daughter loved this app however I cannot recommend anything from this developer any more. The paid version of the app will no longer be available and will be forcefully updated to a new version that will require a subscription to use going forward.

m3drs· 2026-05-21
★★★★Don't trust the developer🇺🇸 US

they're moving to a paid subscription model later this year and forcing this version of the app to (that we paid for) To no longer work. great business model.

Cmd204· 2026-05-21
★★★★Stealing from Paying Customers🇺🇸 US

Zero integrity from this company. If you paid already for permanent access to the app they are now switching to a subscription based model and making your existing purchase meaningless. They should offer people refunds since they’re not getting what they paid for!

Crazy_Sea_Otter· 2026-05-21
★★★★★I never played it before🇺🇸 US

I like monsters

ledabhu123· 2026-04-14
★★★★★And🇯🇵 JP

The

ういhj· 2025-07-31
★★★★★5歳男子が夢中!🇯🇵 JP

息子が英語に触れる一貫になればと思いダウンロードしましたが、まさかのどハマりでずーっとやってます。何度も何度も初めからやり直してます。 フォニックスが身につくので好きなだけやらせてあげたいですが、ゲームだし、あまりにも長時間やるので怒る羽目になってます…が、これだけハマってくれるのは嬉しいことです。

あまあみさかな· 2020-04-04

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