Teach Your Monster to Read

A Google user

7 yıl önce

Just used it for the first time with my 2 year-old (nearly 3) grandson. If he wasn't a bit tired he'd have happily carried on after the half hour we'd already done. He picked up the whole idea of the app in minutes of starting to read and loves it. He was even pressing the screen to direct operations without help for some of the sections (both the games and the story bit). The only niggle is that the flower game can be tricky to do - purely a technical issue rather than educational. Even I found getting the monster onto the right track really difficult, especially if the correct direction was down. It may have been my tablet, which is why I haven't marked it down. It's possible to not use the flowers without missing anything, so it's not a real problem. I'd say that the rocket is the easiest to use for a little person (and his Gran)! He really loves the prizes - especially the food lol. All in all I'd heartily recommend this for any youngster who's ready to read. If it turns out to be a tad advanced (or the toddler isn't as interested in reading as you thought), it can hang around until the time is right.

Happy Bubble

4 yıl önce

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.

Val Wilson

5 yıl önce

This app is amazing. After some abortive attempts at teaching my 5 year old to read at home, she started this game and is now playing it obsessively. It's exactly at the right level for her. She knew letter sounds and was beginning to be able to recognise them in words, but only very occasionally tried reading an unfamiliar word. Now she's had a huge boost in confidence and ability, and recently wrote by herself a 'shopping list' of all her favourite items, completely bonkers spelling but absolutely phonetic (so she hadn't copied the words). She finds reading the longer sentences hard (actually doesn't do it, to be honest), but the app is really forgiving with this and there is always enough positive reinforcement to keep going even when you don't get words right first time. The only comment I have is that we'd like a Scottish version! Some 2-letter sounds only work with an English accent, and I found some of the 'er, ir' sounds really hard to distinguish, so I'm not sure what she's learning there!