What is Faith Schooling?
Faith Schooling publishes Christian education and free church resources for families, schools, churches and adults, including Sunday school, Bible study, Apostolic discipleship and a K–5 homeschool curriculum. The curriculum is the Faith Readers family — Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency (the complete K–5 reading and language arts curriculum, in textbook and weekly-lesson formats), Grammar Garden (the dedicated K–5 language and writing curriculum), Foundations to Fluency (phonics practice one pattern at a time, any age), Decodable Readers and the Phonics Lab (companions), and Learning Cursive (handwriting) — and the Faith Thinkers family, led by Building Number Sense (a sequenced K–5 arithmetic series), with Scripture at the center of the reading and writing work and a short verse beside each math lesson. It also provides HARVEST reading placement, thousands of printable practice pages, learning games, and the Apostolic Academy’s Bible study, parenting, and discipleship resources.
Is Faith Schooling a complete homeschool curriculum, or a supplement?
Both, by subject. For reading and language arts it is a complete curriculum: six full-year student textbooks (8,952 student pages) with teaching guides, 210 weekly lesson sets, 300 decodable readers and fluency passages, and structured phonics. For mathematics, Building Number Sense provides a sequenced student text for every K–5 grade, coordinated workbooks and guides for K–2, and extensive practice by grade and skill. Faith Schooling specializes in elementary reading, language arts, phonics, handwriting, mathematics, and Bible resources, giving families strong core programs around which to build the rest of their homeschool.
What grades does Faith Schooling cover?
Kindergarten through Grade 5. Faith Schooling specializes in the elementary years rather than spreading across K–12.
What subjects does Faith Schooling teach?
Reading (phonemic awareness, phonics, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, morphology, comprehension, and written response), grammar and writing as its own curriculum — Grammar Garden, K–5 — plus grammar and language practice, handwriting and cursive, mathematics, and Bible — The Hidden Word, a free KJV Scripture memory and Bible quizzing curriculum, plus Bible study guides and family discipleship through the Apostolic Academy.
Which subjects have a complete, structured curriculum?
Reading and language arts: Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency (K–5 textbooks and teaching guides) with the Weekly Lessons format of the same sequence. Language and writing: Grammar Garden (K–5 — four quarterly coursebooks, a yearlong Preceptor Guide, an assessment book, and a reference booklet per grade). Targeted phonics: Foundations to Fluency, six levels arranged by pattern rather than grade, 96 workbooks. Handwriting: Learning Cursive, ten workbooks. Mathematics: Building Number Sense, a sequenced K–5 series. The curriculum page shows how every program fits together.
What does a parent actually receive?
Print-ready student textbooks and workbooks; teaching guides you can read page by page in the browser before you join; weekly lesson sets with a preceptor guide; decodable readers; drill sheets, exit tickets, mastery checks, and answer keys; the practice library; the learning games; and My Workbooks for gathering pages into custom workbooks. Everything is delivered digitally — you print what you use.
How does instruction progress week to week?
Each reading week follows the same rhythm — introduce, read, write, apply, check — built around one phonics skill, one story from Scripture or history, one virtue, and one Scripture. Lessons are scripted for the adult teaching them (the how-it-works page walks through a complete lesson, step by step). Each grade is organized in four quarters with a roadmap at the start and a check at the end, and children move forward when they demonstrate the skill, not when the calendar says so.
How do I know where my child should begin?
Take HARVEST, the reading placement: about twenty minutes, adaptive, open to everyone, and it prints a report that names the grade and quarter to start in. For phonics, every Foundations to Fluency level shows its complete first workbook and teaching guide so you can match the pattern your child needs. For math, every Building Number Sense grade page shows eight real sample pages so you can judge the level, and the parent tools include a Math Practice Path and a Curriculum Fit & Sample Week check.
Is homeschooling legal in my state, and what does my state require?
Yes, in all fifty states, and most ask for less than parents fear. The state guides read each state’s own statute and education agency and say in plain English what it requires — a notice, days or hours, subjects, a test — how Faith Schooling’s reading, language arts and mathematics cover it, and what the state does not require that you should still do. Each guide carries a free printable one-page reference for the 2026–2027 school year, open to everyone.
Can I make my own workbook from the worksheets?
Yes. In My Workbooks, All Access members choose practice pages by grade, subject and skill and print them as one PDF with a cover and the child’s name. Pages from different grades and subjects can sit in the same workbook, and a sample workbook is free to read online.
How is progress or mastery measured?
Inside the programs: daily exit tickets, weekly mastery checks with parallel forms (so a retest is not the same questions), timed drill sheets with personal-best tracking, and a skill ledger. A skill counts as mastered when a child demonstrates it at 90% or better across five or more sessions on different days; children who need more practice get it before moving on. HARVEST can be re-run after about eight weeks to see growth.
How do the worksheets connect to the curriculum?
The practice library is organized by the same subjects, grades, and skills the programs teach, so it serves as review, extra practice, and differentiation after a lesson. It is the support layer, never the lesson — Building Number Sense (the math curriculum) and the Faith Thinkers Math Practice Library, for example, are deliberately kept distinct.
How is Faith Schooling different from a printable worksheet site?
A worksheet site sells pages. Faith Schooling publishes programs: sequenced student textbooks, teaching guides you can read before you buy, weekly lesson sets, controlled decodable text, placement, and mastery checks. The worksheets are the practice layer underneath the programs, not the product.
How does Faith Schooling compare with Abeka, BJU Press, Monarch, or Easy Peasy?
Those are different kinds of products. Faith Schooling is parent-led from scripted guides, print-first with supporting browser tools, mastery-paced, and priced once for every K–5 child in the household ($39/month, cancel anytime). It provides complete reading and language arts, structured phonics, cursive, a complete K–5 math student-text sequence, Bible, and discipleship. Every teaching guide can be read in full before you pay. The comparison page lays out the formats side by side while keeping those Faith Schooling strengths clear.
Is Faith Schooling accredited?
Faith Schooling is an independent curriculum publisher for parent-led education; accreditation applies to enrolling schools rather than curriculum materials. Families teach from the materials and keep their own records, grades, and transcripts.
What does membership include, and what costs nothing?
Open Access costs nothing and is open to everyone: HARVEST placement, every Phonics Builder word group, starter paths in the other games, the parent tools, samples in every practice set, the complete first workbook and teaching guide of every Foundations level, the reading and K–2 math teaching guides, every complete Grammar Garden Preceptor Guide, and the entire Apostolic Academy — The Hidden Word Scripture memory curriculum, the study guides, the family printables, and the By Many Witnesses history series. All Access ($39/month, cancel anytime) opens every curriculum, the complete practice library, the full game progressions, and My Workbooks for every grade and every child in one household. Co-op and school licensing is available by request. See the membership page.
What is Faith Schooling’s faith position?
Faith Schooling is Christian and Apostolic in conviction — the position also named by the words Oneness Pentecostal and Apostolic Pentecostal. The statement of faith sets it out in full and defines how those words relate. The academic programs quote the New King James Version (the short verse at the foot of a math practice worksheet is King James); Scripture is carried through the reading and writing lessons and sits beside the work in math; and the Apostolic Academy’s study guides and articles set out what we teach. Its curriculum comparison worksheet lists the doctrinal questions we think every family should ask of any publisher — including us.
Is Faith Schooling Pentecostal, Oneness, or Trinitarian?
Faith Schooling is Apostolic, which is the same position the words Oneness Pentecostal and Apostolic Pentecostal describe: one God revealed in Jesus Christ, water baptism in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues. Pentecostal on its own is the broader category and contains Trinitarian fellowships that differ from us on the Godhead and on the baptismal formula; we are one stream within it and do not speak for the others. The academic reading and math contain no doctrinal teaching and are usable by any Christian family. Every term is defined here, and there are separate pages for Apostolic and Pentecostal families.
Who is Faith Schooling best for?
Parents who want to teach reading and math themselves from scripted lessons, want Scripture woven into the school day rather than appended to it, want a child to move by mastery instead of by the calendar, are teaching Kindergarten through Grade 5, and want to see the entire program — guides, samples, and prices — before deciding.
