Teach Monster: Reading for Fun

What kids do

• Read signs, recipes and instructions in a village
• Complete reading quests to help characters
• Collect books for a monster’s shelf

Who it suits

No numerical range is given. The publisher’s help pages describe primary-school users, around second grade, and readers anywhere from emergent to fluent.

Notes for parents

Reading has a job to do inside the game. That might appeal to a child who can read but isn’t often drawn to books, whereas one who already loves stories for their own sake may not need the extra reason.

In these guides

• Learning to read at home: apps for each stage, from letter sounds to reading for fun: Phonics apps, first-book libraries and read-aloud helpers for ages 3 to 8, sorted by reading stage: letter sounds, blending, first books and reading for fun.

More Reading

• Epic – Kids' Books & Reading: A digital library where children browse stories and nonfiction, listen to Read-To-Me books and audiobooks, and look up words with an audio dictionary.
• Reading.com: A parent and child go through scripted phonics lessons together, followed by decodable stories and practice games.
• Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
• Teach Your Monster to Read: Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
• Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
• Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
• Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.
• Starfall: Starfall offers a sequence of clickable reading activities that move from letter sounds to short words and connected stories.