Why choose a literature-based microschool curriculum?

• Literature makes learning information enjoyable.

• Literature relays information in a format that is easy to remember.

• Literature encourages you to interact with your children. 

Until you've experienced literature-based education, it's hard to believe that there is another type of education out there.

In a typical home school/microschool where Sonlight curriculum is used- like our microschool—this is what you can expect to find:

• A regular plea to "Keep reading!"

• Struggling readers who learn to love books . . . even if they have reading delays or an established dislike of books.

• Children who incorporate what they are learning into their play.

What kinds of books does the  Sonlight curriculum use?

A huge variety, in a wide range of genres. Biography and autobiography, historical fiction, nonfiction, school stories, mysteries, classics, novels, science fiction, fantasy, mythology, devotional, and more. Sonlight includes many awesome biographies of missionaries and great heroes of faith. When your children read these biographies, they connect with great examples of real Christians living out their faith in both everyday and extraordinary circumstances. Your children will discover Christian heroes who truly lived out their faith.

You'll also discover books that aren't written by Christians. Sonlight has found that reading great literature from a variety of viewpoints is tremendously valuable for children. Students learn to think critically, and they enjoy many moving, informative, and beautifully-written books, even if they're not written by Christians.

Sonlight's Christ-centered, literature-based curriculum teaches from the perspective of God's truth and his love for all people of the world. It gives parents and other educators tools to guide their children in the way of Christ as they learn about their own faith and heritage and interact with a wide variety of ideas and cultures.

As we read real books and discuss them with our children, we gain a huge privilege. We get to have many natural conversations with our children about things that really matter: character development, faith, citizenship, our role in the world, and God. What an honor for you to guide your children!