Teach Your Monster to Read

The kids phonics and reading app that's helped millions of kids learn to read

Total ratings

3.98 (Rating count: 3,913)

Review summary

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Pros

Engages children and makes learning fun
Allows parents to monitor children's progress
Helps in learning letter sounds and reading skills
Accommodates children with different learning needs (e.g., autism, speech issues)
Provides a variety of mini games for different skills

Cons

Sound quality issues, particularly with accents and volume
Navigation can be difficult for younger children
No option to transfer the app between devices
No repeat button for directions or sounds
Some features are too advanced for young users

Most mentioned

Sound quality and accent inconsistencies
Engagement and enjoyment of the app by children
Monitoring progress through the parent portal
Frustration with navigation and game complexity
Desire for repeat functionality for better understanding

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Recent rating average: 4.60

All time rating average: 3.98

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Date	Author	Comment
2023-02-28	Mirella Serna	The game is great, definitely does what it's meant to do but the issue I'm having is the monster button/ redo button/ back out button placement. It's 100% frustrating for my child and myself to constantly hitting that button while in the middle of a game. As directions are being given the ginger slips and there we go to the monster editor, or my child is in the middle of a game and slip there we go back to the main menu. It's not helpful at all when trying to learn.
2022-08-28	Trena Stevenson	This app is great and my kids absolutely love playing it. They've really learned a LOT. Would be 5 stars if all the sound effects weren't so loud. In order to hear the voice directions the game must be turned up quite high but the sound effects are then blasting at a volume much louder than the talking.
2022-08-18	Deanna Howlett	Amazing app. I definitely recommend it. Also, parents are able to go in and monitor their children's progress on a pretty detailed level. The online "parent portal" made it easy for me to see what combination sounds my son was struggling with, so we could work on building those strengths while reading physical books. My child is now entering 2nd grade and is reading English fluently (including words he hasnt read before) so we are on the next game (Reading for Fun); we both absolutely love it!
2022-03-27	Steve Brown	Exceptional app!! My son is on the spectrum and is mostly nonverbal. He loves this. He repeats the sounds, is able to associate the letters to the sounds. Has a little difficulty on getting the ducks in the lake (using a mouse on Android box). He almost has the order of letters to drop on the spaceship board. Repetition and a little help work great. Very pleased with his improvement over a short time. Impressed that backing out of the app doesn't lose progress. He gets extremely excited playing.
2022-02-12	Big Boneded	My children (age 4 and 7) love this and ask to play it! Which is great. They are certainly learning as they do. I don't like that, after paying for it, I can't transfer the app to another device. If my child uninstalls it (one did), that's another $5 I must pay to put it back (I didn't/won't). It's not account based, it's per download
2021-08-31	Happy Bubble	I've used this app on PC many years and recently on the phone. It's great, but there are some difficulties in understanding the different accent for American kids. Especially if your student has a speech impediment or difficulty with R's as this is a British and Phonics based program. I will also say by level 3, Champion Readers, the sound quality seems to need fixed a little. Most of the voices cannot be heard well (on pc) except for the male who says to watch out for the monsters and such. His audio is overwhelming loud where as the female voices are too soft, but that's just on PC for the 3rd level. He now enjoys reading, after using this program for 3 years, in addition to others. Aside from the audio issue for PC users, I've noticed suddenly the pc version is very laggy. Consistently. So we moved to the app and that seemed to fix it. Though our pc is designed specifically for video gaming, the browser based program is just too laggy. His favorite activity has been grabbing 2 balloons to unlock a gate, and then seeing how far he can carry them past the gate. He loves the art work, and gets distracted by it often. Not a complaint.
2021-07-14	Holly	All three of my children absolutely love this app! They're used to playing it on a laptop at home. This makes it more convenient to be played anywhere we go. My oldest has eye teaming issues that make traditional learning to read programs difficult, my middle child has sensory issues that make traditional learning settings stressful, and my youngest can't sit still at all LOL. This game and app have made learning to read easier and enjoyable for all my children. They have a blast with it!
2021-06-02	Danielle Bobalik	My son is 4 at the time of this review. He's been playing this game since he was about 2.5 almost 3 years old and we love it. Obviously at first he really didn't understand how to play and just loved all the sounds and creating his monster. However, over time it really helped him learn his letters and letter sounds. We took a technology break but he still asks to play Monsters. This has become one of our homeschooling essentials. I regularly recommend this app to everyone. The hardest part has been getting him to stop playing. 😆
2021-06-01	Leslie Boston	We love it. It's a great sidekick to the Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons book (which we've used for three kids so far). However, whatever accent the narrator has makes it really tough for my 4yo to understand what sound they are asking for. It would be immensely improved by the option of American English.
2021-04-05	Gina K	My daughter enjoys the monsters and go thru the rehlms that are there. She is learning her site words, I in a way wish that as much as they move forward, they could also go back and redo some of the lessons. We want to reinforce those lessons. She is getting her sight words which is very helpful. I would like to also see how we can improve the sounding out of words. sometimes the words aren't clear and it even confuses me. But overall, i would recommend this greatly for any parent. Its fun for both boys and girls and she still asks to play it. i try to get her to play at least once a week but some days she will spend 2 hours on it playing.

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