Beyond the Busy Work.
Literature guides built for homeschool families — from your child's very first story to Shakespeare.
Read together in the early years. Let them take the lead as they grow. LitPads begins with shared read-aloud experiences you and your child explore side by side — and develops into independent literature study, complete with parent answer keys, as readers mature. No lesson prep. No lectures. Just the conversation.
Great Places to Start
Beloved books, thoughtfully guided. Find a LitPad for where your reader is right now.
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Ambition, guilt, and a prophecy that won't let go — Shakespeare's thriller, made for real conversation.
The Outsiders
by S. E. Hinton
Loyalty, class, and growing up too fast - a book that starts real conversations.
Charlotte's Web
by E.B. White
A beloved tale of friendship, loyalty, and the beauty of life's cycles.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Justice, empathy, and moral courage — timeless themes for modern readers.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's most playful comedy, made for reading out loud together.
Bridge to Terabithia
by Katherine Paterson
Friendship, imagination, and the kingdom two children build across the creek.
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Age excess, American Dream, and a green light — made approachable for homeschool high schoolers.
Sam & Pip — Book One
Follow the Trail
Twenty-five phonics lessons, twenty-one sounds, and your script already on the page.
For Every Stage of the Reading Journey
From First Stories to Timeless Classics
LitPads grows alongside your reader—from building early comprehension and confidence to exploring character, context, language, and meaning in literature's most enduring works.
From reading together to thinking independently.
That's exactly why LitPads exists.
Comprehension You Can Trust
Every guide is built around deep understanding, not surface recall. Your child isn't just answering questions — they're learning to think about what they read.
Built for the Way Readers Grow
Read side by side in the early years. As comprehension and confidence grow, LitPads gradually puts more of the thinking into your student's hands — no lesson prep or lectures required at any stage.
No Philosophy to Adopt
No classical-education framework to learn first. No faith-specific lens. Just a good book and a guide that asks the right questions. You don't have to join anything to use LitPads.
Answer Key Included
For independent readers, every LitPad includes a complete parent answer key so you can evaluate with confidence and keep the conversation going — even for books you haven't read yourself.
We started where most people are scared to go.
Shakespeare is the book most homeschool parents quietly dread. Too dense. Too much context. Too easy to fake your way through and understand nothing.
That's exactly where LitPads began.
Our high school guides take Macbeth, Julius Caesar, and the rest of the canon and make them genuinely approachable — without dumbing them down. And our Sam & Pip series proves the same approach works at the very beginning, with your child's first stories.
The whole arc, the same trusted voice. That's what we're building.
Inside a LitPad
Not busywork.
A way through the book.
Take a look inside Charlotte's Web. Every LitPad creates a thoughtful path from reading the story to actually thinking about it.
Six rhythms. One thoughtful path through the book.
Every book is different. Every LitPad is built around the book.
Explore the GuidesThe same voice at five and at fifteen.
Real pages from three guides. This is what your child is actually doing.
At five
Every sound she's learned so far, a box of words built only from those sounds — and then a real story she can actually read.
Sam & Pip — Book One
At nine
Before each part, what's about to happen and why it matters — then one prediction of her own to hold onto and check later.
Bridge to Terabithia
At fifteen
Two lines of Shakespeare, and room to work out who said them, what was happening, and why they matter.
Macbeth
And you don't have to have read the book
For independent readers, every LitPad ships with a complete parent answer key. It isn't a marking scheme — it's written as talking points, so you can tell what a good answer sounds like and keep the conversation going without having done the reading yourself.
The key's own opening line: “This key is a companion for you — not a test to grade.”
