For homeschoolers
The daily core, taught for you.
Math, reading, phonics, spelling and writing for ages 4–10, following the Common Core from Kindergarten to Grade 5. The app teaches every lesson itself and keeps the records. You keep the rest of the day for everything you homeschool for.
Why homeschool families use it
The basics every day — the part that wears a homeschool down — handled, mastered and recorded.
A complete K–5 core
Every Kindergarten to Grade 5 Common Core math standard has its own lesson. Reading from letter sounds to chapter books, 3,000 spelling words in order, writing from tracing letters to five paragraphs.
It teaches
Every question is read aloud. A wrong answer gets a step-by-step walkthrough — counting it out, carrying the ten, breaking the story problem into a number sentence.
Mastery, then on
A lesson is mastered only when your child gets it right, quickly, on several different days — then the routine moves on by itself. Nothing is “done” for watching a video.
A homeschool morning
As the core curriculum, give each subject 20–30 minutes a day — about two hours in all. You set the minutes per subject in the app, and change them any time.
| Subject | What a day holds | A day |
|---|
| Math | One lesson at a time until it’s mastered: counting, place value, facts, fractions, decimals — on the picture, with a walkthrough when it goes wrong. | 25–30 min |
| Reading | Read-along books that listen as your child reads and help with the words they miss; later, stories with questions, then chapter books and classics. | 25–30 min |
| Writing | Tracing letters, then sentences, paragraphs and five-paragraph pieces, checked on the device. | 20–30 min |
| Spelling & phonics | Letter sounds and word families first, then 3,000 words spelled out, easiest first, each mastered before it leaves the deck. | 20–30 min |
| Core, in all | Then the day is yours: projects, nature, music, history, the library. | about 2 hours |
Using it beside school instead? Five to ten minutes a subject — a 20–40 minute routine after school — is plenty. The app suggests 5 minutes a lesson at age five and ten from age six; you can set 5 to 30.
Records without the paperwork
Many states ask for a log and samples of work. Steady Learners keeps the log for you.
Every lesson, dated
Each child’s page lists every lesson practised, when it was mastered, and how each session went.
A weekly report
Practice days, lessons, right answers, words read — beside the week before. Emailed every Sunday with All-Access.
Standards by name
Every math lesson follows a named Common Core standard — the standards list shows which — so a portfolio can cite them.
What your child learns
Aligned with Common Core math, K–5. Reading, phonics and grammar are built around Common Core skills. What is Common Core? · The math standards list
- 214lessons
- 144math lessons, K–5
- 260Tuck stories
- 56true books with real photos
- 64classic books
- 3,000spelling words
Math
Counting to fractions and decimals, kindergarten to 5th grade, one standard at a time.
Reading
Picture books with Tuck, stories with questions, then chapter books and classics. The app listens as your child reads.
Phonics & spelling
Letter sounds, word families and sound groups, then 3,000 words.
Writing
From tracing letters to five-paragraph pieces, checked on the device.
Several children, one routine each
A five-year-old and a nine-year-old each get their own lessons and minutes. Both tap their own picture and go.
I was the teacher, the reminder and the enforcer. Now they start without being asked, they save up for things and value them more — and we got our evenings back.How it went in our house. Every family is different.
Plans
Every lesson is free for one child. All-Access adds more children and the rest of the routine.
Free
$0
- Every lesson: math, reading, spelling and writing
- The daily routine, mastery and acorns
- One child
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All-Access
$4.99 / month
or $49.99 a year (two months free)
- Up to 4 children
- Weekly progress report emails
- The reward store and Daily Tasks
- Moving on to the next lesson by itself
- Brain games, after lessons
First 14 days free on every new account. Cancel any time.
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Plans in full and how billing works →
Questions homeschoolers ask
Does it work on a laptop or Chromebook?
Yes. Every lesson, book and read-along runs in the browser at app.steadylearners.com, and in the iPhone and iPad app. One account works on all of them.
Can I choose where my child starts?
Yes. When you add a child, each subject starts where their age suggests, and you can pick any lesson in any subject. The lesson page explains what it teaches, shows a sample question, and says what “mastered” means for it.
Can I use it for some subjects only?
Yes. The routine is one lesson per subject; take a subject out and the routine is just the others.
Is it aligned to Common Core?
Every Kindergarten to Grade 5 Common Core math standard has its own lesson. Reading, spelling and writing are built around the Common Core English standards. See what Common Core is and the math standards list.
What doesn’t it cover?
Science, history, a second language, and grades 6 and up. It’s the K–5 core — math, reading, spelling and writing — and leaves the rest of the day to you.
Can my child’s co-op or school use it with us?
A school that uses Steady Learners can link your child so you both see the same lessons and reports — see Steady Learners for Schools.
