Teach Monster vs Build A Reader

From the charity behind the award-winning Teach Your Monster to Read comes Teach Monster – Reading For Fun, a brand new game that encourages kids to have fun and enjoy reading! Designed with experts from the UK’s Roehampton University to get kids reading more, Teach Monster – Reading For Fun inspires kids to explore a magical village full of fascinating facts and spellbinding stories. Customise your own monster, make friends with colourful characters and collect over 70 free ebooks courtesy of Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more. The game encourages children of all ages to read for pleasure and is perfect to play at home or school, alongside Teach Your Monster to Read or on its own. There are hours of reading fun, from following signposts and reading aloud with Goldspear the librarian, to discovering books which help you bake delicious cakes and find treasure. It’s up to you to choose what to explore and when, but hurry, the villagers need your help. Your monster must use all its wisdom, skill and bravery to stop the book-eating goblin from causing chaos in the village and eating all the books! WHY READING FOR FUN? • Boost your child’s reading confidence • Develop your child’s empathy, as they put themselves in different characters’ shoes and develop an understanding of the wider world • Improve your child’s skills in reading for different purposes, from recipes, to signposts and instructions • Read books with friends. Choose brand new books, or re-read old favorites • Create positive screen time for children in a fun environment • Collect over 70 brilliant free ebooks from Usborne, Okido, Otter-Barry and more. Reading for pleasure is a proven method to transform literacy skills and academic performance in children. The pedagogy of reading for pleasure within this game has been developed in close collaboration with educational experts from the UK’s Roehampton University. BE PART OF A READING COMMUNITY • Make friends and help out the villagers with quests that require reading • Pop into the village library to read along with Goldspear, Coco and more • Read different kinds of texts, from signposts and instructions to entire fiction and non-fiction books • Complete jobs to get rewarded with books for your monster’s bookshelf • Solve challenges and follow the story as it unfolds, read recipes to make treats, or go on quests to overcome the book-eating goblin. • Discover new authors, poems, stories and a series of children’s books that you’ll love. Created by Teach Your Monster, Reading for Fun is part of The Usborne Foundation, a charity founded by children’s publisher, Peter Usborne MBE. Harnessing research, design and technology, Teach Your Monster is a non-profit organisation that creates playful media to address issues from literacy to health. What are you waiting for? Take your monster on an epic reading adventure today!

The Build A Reader app from Tulsa City-County Library is a free tool that can help parents develop early literacy skills in children from birth to pre-K in order to grow and sustain a love of reading. The app offers short, bite-sized videos led by professional library staff demonstrating songs, finger plays, and great book recommendations in thematic categories such as Animals and Feelings to prepare young children for a lifetime of reading joy. Plus, when you can’t make it to the library for story time, you can still get a story time… in your pocket!