Teach Your Monster to Read

Description

Teach Your Monster to Read is an app kids love! While it looks like all fun and games, kids learn all kinds of phonics skills through this engaging app. They will practice letters and sounds, segmenting, blending, reading full sentences and so much more.

Cost: Free to teachers

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Details

Teach Your Monster to Read is an app that is getting people talking. There is a lot of positive feedback coming from this engaging phonics app. Students get to make their own monster and take it on a journey through three extensive games. Along the way they will meet other fun characters all while improving their phonics skills

  • Covers the first two years of reading from letters to early readers
  • Fun, interactive and educational
  • Perfect for kindergarteners and some first grade students
  • Games that are teaching students while having fun
  • Computer version is 100% free
  • The website gives ideas for practice with physical games.

Available on: IOS, Google Play, Kindle and computers

Classroom Use

In the classroom Teach Your Monster to Read is an app that would greatly enhance the phonics instruction already being taught in the classroom. I don't think this app is an end all be all but adding it to your daily centers or as an option for free time would be a great way for students to get extra practice and improve their skills quickly. Teach Your Monster to Read will go right along with kindergarten and first grade phonics lessons included in curriculum. When students are working on the app you will see students working on letter recognition, segmenting and blending, completing sentences and more all while having fun.

Teach Monster Games Ltd. (2014, July 23). ‎Teach Your Monster to Read. Retrieved from https://apps.apple.com/us/app/teach-your-monster-to-read/id828392046

Teach Your Monster to Read. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/

Teach Your Monster to Read: Phonics & Reading Game - Apps on Google Play. (2019). Retrieved from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teachyourmonstertoread.tmapp&hl=en_US

Teach Your Monster to Read: Phonics and Learn to Read: Appstore for Android. (2016). Retrieved from https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Monster-Phonics-Learn/dp/B01HDXUH0O