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Teach Your Monster to Read
Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
Phonics practice is wrapped in a continuing adventure, with the customized monster along for the ride. The games move from matching letters and sounds to blending words and, further on, reading whole sentences.
- Ages
- 3–6 years
- Works on
- iPhone and iPad app
- Format
- Self-paced
- Topics
- Reading
- Listed
- 2026-10-10
Rated 4.5 from 30K ratings on the US Apple App Store (checked 2026-10-10).
What kids do
- Customize a monster
- Match letters and sounds
- Blend words
- Read sentences as the adventure goes on
Who it suits
Ages 3–6, per the developer. It is pitched at the very start of phonics, so a confident reader may already be past it.
Notes for parents
The game is split into three stages, which gives a parent a way to pick a starting point.
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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.
- Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
- Teach Monster: Reading for Fun: Recipes, signs and instructions are the reading material in a village adventure where helping characters earns books for a monster’s shelf.
- 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.