Help your child learn to read faster with our unique approach
Do you want to help your child become a successful, confident reader? Our reading scheme is proven to accelerate progress through our unique approach that uses multisensory cues for success learning.
- Over 400,000 children learn to read faster with Monster Phonics
- Reading Scheme for Reception, Year 1, Year 2, and KS2 Catch-Up
- Nursery Books to develop Speaking & Listening
- Teacher Tools – View Engagement & Allocate Levels To Readers
- Inclusive for EAL and SEND
- Create a Love of Reading
How does it work?
We help children to learn to read faster and more confidently.
Monster Phonics makes it easier to learn to read. It uses a multisensory system to help children remember the sound of more complex spellings that can be confusing. This helps children to read confidently and fluently. School subscriptions give access to all parents at home. Parents can subscribe too on a low cost monthly basis.
Meet the monsters
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It is not raining.
We play in the sand.
It is great to play.
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She can see a tree.
He can see a f.ield.
They have a yummy picnic treat.
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It is night.
My light is on.
The stars are bright in the sky.
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The boat will float.
The river flows.
We are going to row.
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A few cats persue a bird.
They are stuck in a tree. Can we rescue them?
The cats jump down. Phew!
Cool Blue
Letters making a long oo sound are coloured blue.
u, o, u-e, oo, ew, ue, ou, ui, o-e, eu[Try reading it out]
It was cool at the pool.
The wind blew.
A group went to the zoo.
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The owl is brown.
It drifts without a sound.
Down and out and around.
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We wrap a present.
Knock! Knock!
We give it to a friend.
Tricky
Tricky helps children learn to more complicated spellings which often make a different sound to what they might expect. These letters are coloured gold.
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She wants some gems
This gem is a magic!
She said thank you.
The Black Cats
The letters of the alphabet and the consonant digraphs. These are the letter sounds that children are first taught in school.
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A cat sat on a rug.
It got in a box.
It had a drink and a nap.
Accelerate progress at home
The Monster Phonics colour-coded method is different to any other. Not only does it make phonics simple and memorable, it makes learning fun! So get out the felt-tip pens and paints! All children make remarkable progress in using our easy colour-coded resources. You will witness the jump in progress. Our colour-coded Flashcards, Magnetic Letter Kits, Books and Toys make learning successful and engaging.
Pricing
Members are able to add child accounts, allocate books and view the reading engagement
of each child.
- Schools
- Parents
Child Accounts
Classic
Features the much loved original Monster Phonics characters, including Tricky Witch and the Silent Ghosts, and is used by schools around the world.
SelectUniversal
Includes adapted Monster Phonics character designs, such as Tricky and the Silent Monsters, and a wider range of story themes from around the world.
SelectMonster Phonics is a highly advanced multisensory Systematic Synthetic Phonics Programme (SSP). It uses 10 monsters to categorise all sounds into 10 simple areas. Monster Phonics categorises sounds into 10 areas and uses the Monsters as a categorisation. Each monster has a different colour. That colour represents that way of spelling the sound.
Phonics books use phonics that children have been taught. The order of teaching phonics is matched to the curriculum in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2.
The phonics focus words and high-frequency word practice boxes at the start of each book help children familiarise themselves with the phonics and vocabulary prior to reading. Comprehension questions help aid children’s development and inference skills.
Monster Phonics enables English to be learnt in a simplistic way. The 26 letters of the alphabet and combinations of these letters make 44 different sounds (phonemes) in English.
There are 144 ways (graphemes) to spell these 44 sounds. For example, the sound A is spelt 8 different ways; ay (play), ai (train), a-e (make), a (apron), ei (vein), eigh (eight), ea (great), ey (grey).
Monster Phonics uses the 10 monsters to categorise all sounds into 10 simple areas. Furthermore, each monster has a different colour and that colour also represents the sound. This means children can recognise the monsters and the colour associated with the sound, which helps them spell, read and write.
The use of monsters and the games associated with Monster Phonics ensures Monster Phonics is a fun and engaging way to learn, further accelerating the speed of learning for all.
In each book, colour highlights the focus spelling (grapheme). Monster Phonics also uses colour to help children to read high-frequency words (common words such as ‘when’ and ‘said’) with fluency. You will find that the colour is dropped from the word once that spelling has been taught.
To support learning, Monster Phonics decodable books should be read alongside the programme as part of your guided reading sessions. We recommend 3 guided reading sessions per week, after which the book is sent home for home reading. For further guidance on placement and how to deliver guided reading, please refer to the section on guided reading in our online manual.