Teach Your Monster to Read would like wish all our teachers a very happy summer holiday and we’d like to thank you for all your support over the past year.
It’s been a fantastic year for Teach Your Monster to Read and the Usborne Foundation with the launch of our third game, Champion Reader, which has surpassed all expectations. It has been played over 30,000 times in its first month of launch!
We’ll be sharing some new resources with you in September; including phonics songs and animations, physical game ideas and IWB activities. Exciting stuff!
We’re looking for teachers in the coming months to work through some improvements to the first game. If you’re interested in testing our new games and products in class then do get in touch: [email protected]
Thanks and enjoy your summer!
The Teach Your Monster to Read team.
Children and teachers from several schools across the world helped to beta test the new Teach Your Monster to Read game, Champion Reader, over the past few months. They played it extensively, looking for bugs and reporting back on educational issues and playability.
It was an insightful experience for everyone involved and we had some fantastic suggestions from the children. Our favourite suggestions was a vampire cloak and a pink dress to go in the shop, more stars to collect, and the mega treasure chest stuffed full of treats.
Teachers suggested many improvements, such as a map for the new world and better ways to navigate the monsters through the game. Teachers had a big input into the words and sentences used in Champion Reader, too.
It was invaluable to have this kind of insight into how the game works in a classroom setting and has helped make Champion Reader even better.
Thank you to our teachers Helen, Matt, Gina, Kimberlee, Nicky, Kristal, Tom, Dawn, Ewa, Debbie and their students!
Ms Lewis’ class in Florida using Teach Your Monster to Read on the whiteboard.
Geavoni, testing the new game for bugs while teaching his monster to read.
Here’s what one of our testing teachers said about Teach Your Monster to Read. Thanks Kimberlee!
“The Teach Your Monster to Read program is a truly amazing addition to the classroom curriculum. After teaching or reviewing phonics I would allow students to work with their monsters to reinforce what they had learned. The activities presented helped students practice phonemic awareness as well as essential word building skills. While my students enjoyed creating and teaching their monsters I felt that the most important part of the experience was the deep joy they discovered in reading. – Ms Lewis, First Grade Teacher
If you would like to join in and test for Teach Your Monster to Read in the future, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].
Find out more about Teach Your Monster to Read 3: Champion Reader.
We’re excited to announce the launch of our fantastic new game Teach Your Monster to Read 3: Champion Reader – it’s our biggest adventure yet!
Building on children’s existing reading knowledge, this new adventure offers extended phonics and reading practice for young learners.
Take your monster on a brilliant new adventure. Visit a universe full of dazzling planets and curious characters.
Your mission is to defeat the horrible Goblin Prince and become a Champion Reader!
Champion Reader is completely free to play online.
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Find out more about this game and the Teach Your Monster to Read series.
In Teach Your Monster to Read 3: Champion Reader, the monster’s mission is to a cast magical spell to banish the Goblin Prince and rescue Jessica’s friends from the blocks of ice they’re trapped in.
The monster must find the Goblin Prince then creep past his lair and grab the spell book from under his nose. Tiptoe, tiptoe… snatch!
Once the monster has the spell book, its mission is to complete the sentences within the book and read them out loud. This will send the Goblin Prince away from the planet and out into the universe once more.
This spell book mini-game engages the children in purposeful, fun reading and they are getting practice in reading sentences.
Teach Your Monster to Read 3 launches on 4th June 2015.
Log in or sign up here to play the first two games in the series, Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps or Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun With Words: www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
In this new Teach Your Monster to Read mini game, Stepping Stones, the monster must jump across the turtles to get to the other side.
Hear a word and then choose the right letters on the turtles’ backs to make the word.
Read a word and choose the right sounds on the turtles to blend its sounds together.
Be careful, if the monster gets the word wrong, it goes back to the other side.
This game helps children to rehearse blending and segmenting of individual words. It also helps children read and spell words that have split digraphs in them.
Teach Your Monster to Read 3 launches on 4th June 2015.
Log in or sign up here to play the first two games in the series, Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps or Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun With Words: http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
The monster is on its quest to find the Goblin Prince and is exploring the new planets.
It comes across a yellow trampoline. Of course the monster cannot resist having a jump around, but on its first jump, it shoots off into another dimension.
The monster now finds itself flying through the sky in a meteor shower. Watch out!
The monster must now find the right letter sounds on the meteors to make the word and get to the next part of the game.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Good luck monsters!
This game helps rehearse segmenting using a target grapheme.
Teach Your Monster to Read 3 launches on 4th June 2015.
Log in or sign up here to play the first two games in the series, Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps or Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun With Words: http:/www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
The monster has found itself in a galaxy ruled by a horrible Goblin Prince. The Goblin Prince is round and green. He wears armour and comes complete with a villainous cackle.
The monster’s mission (should it choose to accept it) is to banish the Goblin Prince from the galaxy and prevent him causing more trouble in the universe.
Helped by his friend Jessica, the monster must work through all the reading challenges on the planet, collect stars and read the spell book to banish the Goblin Prince once and for all.
Just watch out for the Goblin’s henchmen. They look tough, but they are really scaredy-cats!
Teach Your Monster to Read 3 launches on 4th June 2015.
Log in or sign up here to play the first two games in the series, Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps or Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun With Words: http://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
We have three Teach Your Monster to Read kids T-shirts to giveaway. All you need to do is name our cute new game 3 character, The Dragon.
The best answer (as judged by some of our young players) will be sent one of our T-shirts (size 5 years). Just put your suggestions in the comment box below.
Here’s a couple of our monster fans wearing the T-shirts.
Don’t forget! Teach Your Monster to Read 3: Champion Reader launches on 4th June 2015.
The deadline for the competition is 1st June 2015. Terms and Conditions can be found here.
Jessica is a very wise woman. She is purple and sparkly and has luscious long white hair topped of with a starry hat. Wow, she’s magical!
Luckily Jessica is the monster’s friend and guide in this new adventure. She helps the monster through the maze-like planets, advising it which direction to go and providing hints about what it should do next.
Jessica also keeps a careful eye out for danger. She warns the monster when the pesky Goblin Prince is about to appear and helps the monster to catch him. Listen to Jessica, she is very smart.
Teach Your Monster to Read 3 launches on 4th June 2015.
To play the first two games Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps or Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun With Words then log into your game or sign up here: www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
The dragon is a funny and fiery new addition to Teach Your Monster to Read. He’s blue and scaly and rocks back and forth on a spring! Watch out, though, because he breathes out fiery words which the monster must read and understand.
In order to defeat the dragon the monsters must find the correct sound in the words.
This is a great game for rehearsing the different ways of spelling the phonemes (sounds). For example, the dragon breathes out the words ‘burger’ and ‘bird’ and the monster must identify the same sound in each e.g. /ur/ and /ir/. If he doesn’t get the sound right then the dragon breathes out a new word with the sound again.
Teach Your Monster to Read 3: Champion Reader launches on 4th June 2015.
To play the first two games Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps or Teach Your Monster to Read: Fun With Words then log into your game or sign up here: www.teachyourmonstertoread.com
