Starfall vs Teach Your Monster to Read

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Teach Your Monster to Read is a phonics and reading game for children aged 3–6, available on the web, iOS, and Android. Its three stages cover early letter sounds, blending and segmenting, tricky words, sentence reading, comprehension, and short books. Designed to complement school phonics programmes, the game lets adults set a child’s level to suit their abilities. A statistics tracker shows reading progress and stronger and weaker graphemes. Practice Mode includes customisable flashcards and blending and segmenting mini games for focused practice. Teachers can access phonics resources, how-to guides, literacy activities, certificates, display materials, and songs. Parents, guardians, and teachers create student accounts and can track performance; students cannot create their own accounts, and the maker says it does not request or hold student email addresses. Website play on computers and laptops is free. Offline access, a parent dashboard, and printable activities are listed. The maker says its app is moving from a one-time purchase model to a subscription and directs users to app stores for current prices.