Teach Your Monster to Read: First Steps is a fun game designed to help students improve the speed and accuracy with which they recognize letters and sounds. The game has eight levels (or islands as they’re called in the game) each containing four activities. Students play the game as a friendly monster avatar. On each island students can earn prizes for their monsters and customize the look of their monsters.

Teach your Monster to Read: First Steps is a new, free game to practise the first steps of reading.  Combining top quality games design with essential learning, the game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds program. It has been assessed by reading experts at the University of Roehampton.