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. Work independently as they grow. No lesson prep, no lectures, no hovering. They do the work — you get the conversation. Every guide includes a complete answer key, so you can join in even if you haven't read the book.
Popular Places to Start
The guides families reach for again and again — beloved titles, ready to open and hand over today.
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jazz Age excess, American Dream, and a green light — made approachable for homeschool high schoolers.
Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
What happens when the rules fall away. Six sections, thirty words, and nothing to grade.
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare
Love, fate, and family conflict — Shakespeare's most beloved tragedy.
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
Justice, empathy, and moral courage — timeless themes for modern readers.
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare
Power, betrayal, and rhetoric — Shakespeare's most political play.
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
Ambition, guilt, and a prophecy that won't let go — Shakespeare's thriller, made for real conversation.
Sam & Pip — Book One
Pre-Reader Series
Your child's very first guided reading experience — built for reading together.
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.
She read the whole book. You want to know she actually understood it.
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.
No Teacher Prep Required
No lesson prep. No lectures. No hovering. They work through the guide on their own — and you get the conversation afterward.
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
Every guide comes with a complete answer key so you can evaluate with confidence — 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
Every guide ships with the 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.”
Not sure where to start?
Grab our free comprehension guide — works for any book, any age.
"5 Questions to Ask After Any Book" helps your child actually process what they read. Discussion-based, no prep required. Just print and go.
One download. No inbox commitment.
Built by a homeschool family, for homeschool families.
LitPads was created because we believe reading should lead to real conversation — not a stack of checked boxes. Every guide is designed to give your child the tools to think deeply, and give you the confidence that it's working. We're building a K–12 curriculum that takes kids all the way from their first story to the classics — and we're just getting started.