The Odyssey, the return journey of Ulysses to the beloved island of Ithaca after the Trojan war, revised and re-proposed in a simplified version for lower secondary school, with facilitations for reading; the topics can be read, deepened and listened to as an audiobook. Edited by Carlo Scataglini, one of the greatest Italian experts in the field of facilitated teaching, the volume offers important cognitive organizers and facilitators in each chapter which allow students with greater difficulty to follow the reading and understand the verses and the meaning of the literary text.

Beyond the story, the book offers:
Visual facilitations: the text is accompanied by explanatory images, which can be read and understood immediately.
Lexicon: basic vocabulary words have been chosen, highlighting difficult words and idioms with different colours, explaining their meaning at the end of each chapter.
Syntax: the text is made up of short, coordinated or simple subordinate sentences, in which the subjects have been made as explicit as possible, using the active and affirmative verbal form, with a prevalent use of the indicative mode.
Organization of contents: at the beginning of each chapter there is a summary of the events that are about to happen.
Audio: the reader has the opportunity to listen (and follow) the text of the story told by a narrator, through the QR-codes at the beginning of each chapter or the online resources on the Erickson website.

Moreover, in each chapter you will find:

• An introduction to the characters in the story
• What happens…: summary of what will happen in the chapter
• Difficult words: less common words explained on the last page of each chapter
• Sayings and expressions: particular phrases are explained at the end of each chapter
• The verses and epithets: the most important verses are revisited and explained together with the epithets

The easy classics
The Odyssey is part of «The Easy Classics» told by Carlo Scataglini, a series which offers literature classics to students, with some simplification criteria to help them read and understand the stories independently.