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From the learning experts at HOMER: tips, resources, and guides to help foster your child’s lifelong love of learning.

Math Games While Setting the Table

While you’re busy getting dinner ready, call on your helpers to set the table.

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!

Reading

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!

Reading

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.

Reading

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!

Reading

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?

Math

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!

Reading

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.

Reading

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.