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Where should I start?

First, know what your own state asks. Homeschooling is legal in all fifty states and the District of Columbia, and the state guides say in plain English what each one requires, how to file, and where Faith Schooling fits; read yours before you choose a route below.

Start with the route below that matches your need. If you want a complete K-5 system, take the HARVEST reading placement first, then open the curriculum map. If you only want reading, or only printables, skip straight to that route. Several parts of the site are open to everyone at no cost.

Faith Schooling is an independent K–5 curriculum publisher for parent-led education. It supplies full-year reading and language arts, grammar and writing, and math sequences, with phonics, cursive, Bible, and discipleship materials beside them, for home, co-op, or classroom use. It does not publish science or history: families and schools choose those, and keep their own records.

HARVEST reading placement The curriculum map What your state requires

Route 1: you want a complete K-5 system

This is the fullest path: reading and language arts as the spine, math beside it, handwriting as a companion, and printable practice underneath. Work through it in this order. Each step tells you what the next one assumes, so you are never guessing which book comes first.

1. Place the reader. HARVEST is a browser assessment, about twenty minutes in seven sections, and it names a starting point in the Faith Readers sequence. It runs on your device and nothing is uploaded.
2. Choose the reading format. Phonics, Decoding and Early Fluency is the same year in six grade-level student textbooks with teaching guides. Faith Readers Weekly Lessons is the same sequence as 210 print-ready weekly sets. Most families pick one, not both.
3. Add math. Building Number Sense is the sequenced K-5 arithmetic series. Kindergarten through Grade 2 also have coordinated practice workbooks and teaching guides; Grades 3 to 5 currently ship the student text.
4. Add handwriting when the child is ready. Learning Cursive is ten workbooks, 170 pages, readiness strokes through fluent cursive.
5. Use the Practice Library for reinforcement, not instruction. The first three worksheets in every set are open to everyone.
6. Read the pricing before you decide. One household membership covers every child and every grade.

Phonics, Decoding and Early Fluency Faith Readers Weekly Lessons Building Number Sense Learning Cursive The Practice Library Membership and pricing

Route 2: you want reading only

Plenty of families already have math they like and only want the reading fixed. That is a supported way to use this. The reading line stands on its own, and each piece below teaches a different part of the job rather than repeating it.

1. HARVEST first, so you start at the right point rather than at the child's age.
2. Phonics, Decoding and Early Fluency, or the weekly lesson sets, as the core sequence.
3. Decodable Readers: 300 original one-page stories, fifty per grade, each with a question about the story and a Bible verse.
4. Foundations to Fluency: 96 workbooks across six levels, one phonics pattern at a time, by pattern rather than by grade. Useful when a specific pattern is the problem.
5. Phonics Lab: 150 K-5 worksheets, each with an answer key, for the spelling side of reading.

Decodable Readers Foundations to Fluency Phonics Lab

Route 3: you want printable practice, not a curriculum

The Practice Library is practice. It reinforces a lesson someone else taught; it does not teach the lesson itself. If you want the teaching, you want Route 1 or Route 2. If you want pages to hand a child who has already been taught the skill, this is the right door.

The library holds thousands of print-ready worksheets in skill sets, organized subject first, then grade, then skill. The first three worksheets in every set are open to everyone, so you can print and judge the quality before deciding anything.

Browse the Practice Library Math worksheets Phonics and spelling worksheets Faith Thinkers math practice

Route 4: you are teaching several children at once

One membership covers a single household across every grade from Kindergarten to Grade 5, with no per-child limits. There are no per-child or per-grade upgrades, so a family of five pays what a family of one pays.

• Run HARVEST separately for each child. Two children the same age often place differently, and that is the point.
• Where two children need the same phonics pattern at different ages, use Foundations to Fluency. It is organized by pattern, not by grade, so one workbook serves both.
• Print the weekly lesson sets per child and teach from the one preceptor guide.
• Use My Workbooks to search the member library and combine worksheets from the practice libraries into a single printable workbook, up to 120 sheets in one PDF, instead of printing from several places.

My Workbooks: a workbook for each child Membership and pricing Foundations to Fluency

Route 5: you run a co-op, microschool or classroom

The household membership does not cover co-ops, classrooms, churches, tutoring businesses, file sharing or redistribution. Co-op and school licensing is available by request through the contact page, so tell us about your group and we will set up the right access rather than selling you the wrong one.

For group teaching, the weekly lesson sets are usually the better format: 210 weekly sets across six grades, each holding five short daily lessons and a seven-page preceptor guide that tells the adult what to say and do. The entire Apostolic Academy is free and open to everyone, including churches and classes.

Contact us about group licensing Weekly lesson sets Apostolic Academy How we compare to other publishers

What Faith Schooling supplies, and what your family adds

Faith Schooling publishes reading, language and writing, math, handwriting, and Bible materials for Kindergarten to Grade 5. It does not publish science or history.

Three subjects are full-year sequences, taught in order from the first week to the last. The rest is a companion to them or extra practice.

Full-year subject sequences

Reading, phonics and language arts

Phonics, Decoding, and Early Fluency A student textbook and a teaching guide for every grade, Kindergarten to Grade 5. The same sequence also comes a week at a time as Faith Readers Weekly Lessons; most families choose one format.

Grammar and writing

Grammar Garden Four quarterly coursebooks, a Preceptor Guide, an assessment book and a reference booklet for every grade, Kindergarten to Grade 5.

Math

Building Number Sense A student text for every grade, Kindergarten to Grade 5. Kindergarten to Grade 2 also have a practice workbook and a teaching guide; Grades 3 to 5 are the student text alone.

Companions, taught in their own order

Handwriting

Learning Cursive Ten workbooks in order, from readiness strokes to fluent cursive, for any child who is ready.

Phonics, one pattern at a time

Foundations to Fluency Workbooks in six levels, arranged by phonics pattern rather than by grade. Useful when one pattern is the problem.

Connected reading

Decodable Readers One-page readers for every grade: decodable stories in Kindergarten to Grade 2 and fluency passages in Grades 3 to 5.

Supplementary practice

Practice pages

The practice library Printable pages by grade and skill in phonics, vocabulary, reading comprehension, grammar and writing, and math. Practice for a skill already taught, never the lesson.

A workbook for each child

My Workbooks Gather practice pages into one printable workbook. It holds practice pages, not the textbooks.

Open to everyone, with or without a membership

Bible and Scripture memory

The Apostolic Academy The Hidden Word Scripture memory curriculum, study guides, church history and family printables.

What your family adds

Science

Your choice Faith Schooling does not publish a science program.

History and social studies

Your choice Faith Schooling does not publish a history or social studies program.

Any other subject

Your choice Art, music, health, a foreign language, and anything else your state names.

The full curriculum map What your state asks for

What costs nothing

You can evaluate a great deal before paying anything. HARVEST is free. All 80 K-3 word groups and all four modes of the Phonics Builder game are open to everyone. Grammar Garden opens seven modes and three stories; the K-4 math game opens two paths in each of its grades. The first three worksheets in every practice set are open to everyone.

The entire Apostolic Academy is free: 55 articles and 7 printables across four pathways, The Hidden Word Scripture memory curriculum, the ten-volume By Many Witnesses church history, study guides and family printables. Nothing in the Academy sits behind a membership.

Every Faith Readers Originals printable is free too: missionary stories, Bible games, scroll stories, morning devotions, nature study kits and outdoor projects, with three unit studies, each a free PDF.

HARVEST Games Apostolic Academy The Hidden Word Faith Readers Originals

Then what?

Once you have picked a route, two pages answer most of what comes next. The sample week shows a real Monday-to-Friday week from the sequence, with the actual pages and minutes. The dated comparison page shows how Faith Schooling's household membership, parent-led scripts, print-first format, and mastery pacing differ from other Christian publishers.

A real sample week Compare with other publishers Common questions