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Reading and Play: Do the Two Intersect?

We’re big fans of learning AND playing. In fact, we often find ourselves doing both and don’t even realize it.

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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!

Printables

Go on a Mail Adventure With This Printable DIY Mail Truck

Bring the post office to life with this adorable DIY Mail Truck. All you’ll need is a cardboard box, paint, and a few more tools listed below.

Reading Activities

Your MAIL ADVENTURE Printables: Letter Prompts

These letter prompts so you can provide another way to stay in touch!  Print them on regular printer paper, and get busy writing!

Parenting

My child wants me to read the same story every night. Is that OK?

It is not just OK that a child wants to hear the same story repeatedly, it’s terrific! It might be

Parenting

How to Get Your Child Pay to Attention When Learning Their ABCs!

Do you often ask, “How can I make my child pay attention when I try to teach the alphabet?” Well,

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!

Printables

Outdoor Winter Scavenger Hunt

This winter scavenger hunt gets kids playing outside while building memory skills.

Parenting

My child believes he is a terrible reader and refuses even to try. What can I do?

Q&A with Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Many children feel that unless they read with the fluency of adults,

Parenting

What can I do to help my child love reading?

Q&A with Peggy Kaye, HOMER’s Chief Curriculum Officer Children who love books and stories before they are readers are very

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.

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