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As mentioned above, Homer Reading is an application for young children. This is a smart and fun approach that will help your child develop a passion for reading and learning through simple and smart activities. Homer Reading App Helps Kids Help your child develop core abilities with a personalized reading learning plan!
Children are naturally more inclined to read than to write. The moment children read about what they love, they love to read everything about it. Homer Reading brings together everything your child loves, with the app they can create a fully customizable reading learning plan. It includes a large number of exercises in phonetics, vision, alphabet and this is just the tip of the iceberg and develops with your child aged 2 to 8 years.
The Homer Reading app has seen a 74% boost and 74% change in early reading in just 15 minutes a day. Plus, with stories and activities modified to suit each child's strengths, they'll learn while having a good time.
Homer is a very long term early learning program from 2 to 8 years, tailored to your child's passion for learning and helping them start to look at reading with a rosy eye. Your Homer registration includes two apps: Homer Reading, a showcased Homer-themed reading learning program, and Homer Stories, a beloved library of intuitive stories.
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- Playful learning activities by subject area: reading, math, social and emotional learning, spatial and cognitive skills. .
- A personalized reading journey that develops with your child as you teach them to read.
- Proven to increase early reading scores by 74%.
- Interactive activities, games, stories and melodies to keep your child entertained for hours.
- Hundreds of stories and characters your child will love, from art pieces like Little Red Riding Hood to the most popular ones like Thomas the Tank Engine.
- One membership is for the whole family with 4 customizable profiles.
- Additional resources for caregivers, including printable forms, videos, exercises, and learning tips.
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Homer Reading app includes:
- Over 1,000 phonetic exercises in our challenging Homer step-by-step method for kids ages 2-8.
- Over 200+ stories in our ebook library.
- Over 200 science and history exercises for more information.
- Arts and crafts plus musical exercises to encourage innovation.
- Simple but handy application, interesting interfaces, stable and fun.
-150+ printable worksheets, learning games and activities when screen time is over.
- 60 first readers - the first books your child can read alone!
- Relive witch memories as Homer writes down his first books read for you!
It turned out that early reading increased by 74%.
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- Just 15 minutes a day increases early reading rates by 74% in a new report.
- Due to validation by Harvard and Stanford faculty
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- User gets 30 days free after registration starts.
- Membership options include month by month (7.99 per month) or yearly (79.99 per month - 16% off).
- Installment payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase.
- Like any remaining Apple membership apps, Homer cannot use Family Sharing to share memberships between relatives.
- Membership is therefore renewed unless auto-renew is disabled in any case - 24 hours before the end of the current time period.
- Account will be charged $7.99 for auto-renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current time period.
- Customer may control membership and disable auto-recovery by going to Account Settings after purchase.
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Why is it recommended for first-graders to read the Iliad and the Odyssey in the summer
Teacher's comment: "We read from the list, it is designed for three years." Including the kids are invited to familiarize themselves with the epic French poem "The Song of Roland", "Iliad" and "Odyssey" by Homer, "Aeneid" by Virgil, "Don Quixote" by Cervantes ... This is part of the "diary of a young reader" intended for 1- 4 classes. Why does it contain so many works that, frankly, not every adult can master? On what basis is literature selected? Correspondents of "RG" dealt with this together with parents, teachers and professors of universities - participants in Project 5-100.
- The list is recommended for reading in elementary school by the authors O.V. Uzorova and E.A. Nefedova. These teaching aids are used by teachers throughout Russia. Moreover, regardless of what program they teach, - comments the deputy director of Lyceum No. 44 in Lipetsk, an honorary worker of general education of the Russian Federation Natalya Kolganova.
- I emphasize that the list is recommended. And next to it there is another list of books - already for extracurricular reading. It's much shorter. For example, Andersen, Barto, Bianchi, Nosov, Oseeva, Russian folk tales and Pushkin's tales are offered there ... This is a classic of children's literature. I am sure that kids will read all these works together with their parents with pleasure. As for the recommended Homer and Virgil, I would treat them with a healthy dose of humor. The authors of this manual, apparently, were guided by the principle: give the child the maximum - and he will definitely take the minimum.
Parents should not shake their child's nose with a list of 50-100 works all summer long - such a volume not only frightens, but also causes rejection
According to a specialist, all children develop very differently. There are programs for ordinary schools, there are programs for advanced humanitarian gymnasiums. And indeed, by the end of the fourth grade, some children can master, if not the entire Iliad, then excerpts from it - completely.
It's the same with Cervantes' Don Quixote, which was certainly not originally written for schoolchildren. The point is also that in such recommended lists, many works are given to children "for growth." The same "Iliad" the guys will pass at the lessons of history.
- If you see the works of Homer and Virgil in the list for elementary school, then, of course, you don’t need to read them in an academic publication, not every student of the direction of philology can do this, - Lyudmila Budneva, senior lecturer at the Humanitarian Institute of Novosibirsk State University, is sure. - There are adapted editions designed specifically for children's reading. The same applies, for example, to the books of D. Defoe and D. Swift.
- There are no translation recommendations in the list. This means that parents can take too archaic versions that an elementary school student cannot read on their own. Yes, and with the help of moms and dads, most likely, he will not master them either, - says Sofya Sukhanova, associate professor of the philological faculty of Tomsk State University.
- What to do? Do not read? Still, it is necessary to read, but not completely, but interesting fragments, for example, the description of the shield of Achilles from the Iliad, Odysseus at the Cyclopes from the Odyssey, Aeneas's story about the Trojan horse from the Aeneid. The rest can be read from the famous and very popular book by N.A. Kuhn "Legends and Myths of Ancient Greece", which expounds the Trojan myths according to these three poems.
Homer in elementary school? Why not: there are publications adapted especially for children
It must be said that in the Russian elementary school there were no "obligatory", "single for all" lists of works. Some teachers offer for summer reading only what will be taught in textbook classes: so that children find books in advance. Others, in addition, offer something that will be simply interesting to the child, which will expand his horizons. Therefore, such expanded lists appear.
Here's another interesting point. In the "reader's diary", which ended up in the editors of "RG", in addition to the list of references, there are also specific rules for reading technique.
First class - 25-30 words per minute, second - 40-50 words, third - 70-80, fourth - 90-110. On the one hand, this is not so much, for most children it is quite feasible. On the other hand, such a check is proposed to be carried out every week - to fix the result, marking it on a specially drawn dial. In addition, there are clear instructions in the "diary": write down the author, the title of the book - write a review about it, draw a picture. Write down the start and end dates of reading. Answer the questions: what does the book teach? What other works would you read by this author? Which passage did you like the most? Well, for a "snack" - write the main characters and give them a description ... A little more - and the fourth graders will be ready to take control tests like the Unified State Examination?
- The fact that children write down the author of the book, its characters, their impressions in the diary gives them the opportunity to consciously approach reading. The main information they need during their studies will remain in the diary, - says Lera Kamalova, Associate Professor of the Department of Preschool and Primary Education of the Institute of Psychology and Education of KFU.
- In general, the reader's diary is a good idea aimed at the implementation of educational standards. Children should know both Russian and foreign literature, get acquainted with various genres, read constantly and systematically. This develops the aesthetic taste of schoolchildren, educates them in a philological culture. At the same time, in the recommended diary, only the section "Scientific and educational literature" includes 48 authors, "Adventures and fantasy" - 87 authors and several works for each. Parents should not shake their child's nose with a list of 50-100 works all summer long - such a volume is not only frightening, but also causes rejection.
So what should moms and dads do when they see the list? First of all, don't panic. Together with the baby, choose the most interesting works for them and read for your pleasure. The fact that the guys will master the entire recommended list of books, not a single elementary school teacher expects or requires.
- What is my homework for the summer? First of all - to relax: walk more, swim, sunbathe.
Plus - carefully observe nature, get as many bright summer impressions as possible, - says Natalya Kolganova, deputy director of Lyceum No. 44 in Lipetsk. - The child should enjoy life, enjoy new books. You should not thoughtlessly force him to "swallow" works, this will not bring happiness to anyone.
Tatyana Suzdalnitskaya, mother of two children, member of the Advisory Board of the Parents' Society under the Department of Education and Science of Moscow, member of the Russian Union of Writers:
- Any vacation is a change of activities. And despite all our ardent desire to cram as much information into children as possible, despite the fact that world literature adorns modernity no less than before, we still need to stop and give the child an opportunity to breathe in peace.
When we go on vacation, don't we take quarterly reports with us "for easy reading"? On the contrary, we strive to unload to the maximum. We want to feel that very happy moment when you did everything - and you no longer owe anything to anyone.
So why do we deny this to children? They need such psychological relief more than adults.
Don't get me wrong: I love to read. And I would really like my children to love to read as well. But the volume of information that falls on them today cannot be compared with what we had. It is vital for a modern child to feel at least sometimes that he is his own master. Therefore, I did not even look at our lists of literature. And I’m not going to strain them either with my eldest daughter, an eighth-grader, or my youngest, who will go to the third grade.
In the recommended list, only the section "Scientific and educational literature" includes 48 authors, "Adventures and fantasy" - 87 authors and several works for each. Photo: Mikhail Sinitsyn/RG
Opinion
- There are many "eternal" texts in the list. But children have changed a lot, they live in a digital world in many ways. It is hardly effective to teach them in the same way as you and I, - says Andrey Shcherbenok, director of the School of Advanced Studies of Tyumen State University.
- The absence of modern texts is especially noticeable in the section "Scientific and educational books". What is worth at least "And I was in a computer city" 1990 (!) years of publication. The same applies to biology or astronomy - an educational game about space on a tablet, which my five-year-old son has mastered, introduces us to noticeably more advanced concepts of astrophysics and astronomy than the books on the recommended list.
"The practice of extracurricular summer reading is an element of education, the traditions of which come from the Soviet school. However, the texts of Homer and Virgil require serious preliminary and parallel work with the teacher, competent methodological support and mandatory adaptation. The depth, "heaviness" of the text for a small reader cannot should not be taken into account when compiling the program,” says Director of the SUSU Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Doctor of Philology, Professor Elena Ponomareva.
"The first list - for extracurricular reading - is well thought out, correlated with the age characteristics of schoolchildren.
Perhaps for children of the 2nd grade it is premature to read O.N. Tikhomirov's book "Alexander Nevsky" or - for children of the 3rd grade - reading epics "There are a lot of obsolete words in the texts, they talk about events that children are not required to know," says Serafima Burova, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian and Foreign Literature of the Tyumen State University, "The list of recommended reading is another matter. It is probably addressed to parents who choose books It might be worth considering organizing a lecture hall "Children's Reading for Parents".0003
Direct speech
Why are there such serious and adult works on the list for primary school? Rossiyskaya Gazeta asked this question to Olga Uzorova, one of the authors of the New Diary of a Young Reader methodological manual.
- For recommended works. The first rule of elementary school is that the class teacher always forms a list of literature for the summer. The main thing for parents is to do everything possible so that the child reads in the summer what his teacher asked, - answered Olga Uzorova.
