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From the learning experts at HOMER: tips, resources, and guides to help foster your child’s lifelong love of learning.
HOMER’s Skills Adventure: Listening
It’s never too early to teach kids to be active listeners. As they take in, process, and respond to information, they’re making connections with the world around them and the people in it!
How Do Children Learn To Read?
Is there a best or proven way to help children learn to read? HOMER’s Senior Director of Learning and Curriculum Design shares the science behind how kids learn to read!
6 Quick Tips to Get Kids Reading
Your big goal is to make books and stories so wonderful, so special, and so exciting that your child cannot wait to learn to read.
Get Your Kids to Love Reading with These 3 Easy Tips
Making your home “book-oriented environment” doesn’t mean you have to give up an entire room to dedicate to books!
Sounding Out Words: Giving Your Child The Best Start
Your child has mastered the alphabet; they can name the letters, they know the order of the letters, and they know the sounds that each letter represents. So, what’s next?
4 Reasons To Listen To Music With Your Kids
Check out this amazing playlist and have some fun listening to your favorite tunes with your kids!
8 Tips to Keep Kids Loving Reading in a World of Test Prep
We hope these tipsl help your family keep the spirit of reading alive and well in your home, even as the pressures of standardized testing mount.
5 Tips to Motivate Your Reluctant Reader
Is your child a reluctant reader? Pull out the picture books. These tips will help you support your child’s love of reading in the early years of formal schooling.
Reading + Math = Success
Finding ways to engage kids with both reading and math is a great way to strengthen both domains and apply learning to new contexts.
Preschool Music: Learn to Read Through Songs
Nothing brightens up family time like music. Music teaches children about rhyme, an important part of learning to read.
Kindergarten Readiness: Homer Helps Even the Youngest Children Prepare for School
While children don’t need to read before kindergarten, these skills make learning to read easier.