What is Faith Schooling?
Faith Schooling is a Christian K–5 curriculum publisher for homeschools, co-ops, microschools, and Christian schools. It publishes the Faith Readers family — Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency (the complete K–5 reading and language arts curriculum, in textbook and weekly-lesson formats), 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 woven through the lessons. It also provides HARVEST reading placement, 30,839 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 structured phonics. For mathematics it is a sequenced K–5 series that is still growing — a student text for every grade, with practice workbooks and teaching guides for Kindergarten through Grade 2 today. The practice library supplements both. Faith Schooling does not currently publish science or history programs, so a family that wants an all-subject package pairs it with its own science and history.
What grades does Faith Schooling cover?
Kindergarten through Grade 5, with some early-learning practice for Pre-K. 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 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. 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 the Member Workspace for gathering pages into custom packets. 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 Bible hero, 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 fifteen minutes, adaptive, open to everyone, and it prints a report that names the lesson to start with. 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 interior pages so you can judge the level, and the parent tools include a Math Practice Path and a Curriculum Fit & Sample Week check.
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. Abeka and BJU Press sell per-grade kits across all core subjects, with optional video lessons; Monarch (Alpha Omega) is an online program for grades 3–12; Easy Peasy is a free online curriculum. Faith Schooling is parent-led from scripted guides rather than video teachers; print-first books with browser tools rather than an online-only platform; mastery-paced rather than calendar-paced; K–5 only; one household price ($39/month or $299 for the founding first year) instead of per-grade kits; complete for reading and language arts and sequenced-and-growing for math; and it does not include science or history. Every teaching guide can be read in full before you pay. The comparison page lays it out side by side.
Is Faith Schooling accredited?
No — and no curriculum is. Accreditation is granted to schools that enroll students and keep records, not to curriculum publishers; the accredited options at other publishers are their academies. Faith Schooling is a publisher: families teach from its materials and keep their own records, as with any homeschool curriculum.
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, 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, or $299 for the founding first year and then $349/year) opens every curriculum, the complete practice library, the full game progressions, and the Member Workspace 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 academic programs quote the New King James Version, Scripture is carried through the lessons rather than added beside them, 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.
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.
