Reading and writing, phonics to Grade 12

What secular homeschool English curriculum goes from phonics to Grade 12?

Clareza Academy's English is a 12-course secular sequence that starts with systematic phonics for kindergarten to Grade 2, builds reading and writing with evidence through Grade 8, and finishes with four years of high school English plus a creative writing workshop, aligned to the Common Core.

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Learning to read, K to 2

Learning to Read: Systematic Phonics takes a child from letter sounds to reading real sentences, and in Grade 2 finishes with long vowels, vowel teams and bigger words. Questions are read aloud and answered by tapping.

Grades 3 to 8

Grade 3, Reading, Thinking, Writing, is built on answering from the text rather than a guess. Grade 4 is reading and writing with evidence, Grade 5 is reading closely and writing clearly, and Grade 6 starts argument and literary analysis in earnest. Grade 7 is Reading Arguments, Writing Positions, and Grade 8 is Structure, Irony, and Argument.

High school

English 9: Reading and Writing the Human Story. English 10: Identity, Society, and the Stories We Tell. Grade 11: American Voices, American Arguments, with Craft and Revision, a creative writing workshop, alongside. Grade 12: Literature, Rhetoric, and the Examined Life, including the research paper. A Speech and Communication course is available in Grade 10.

Support for a child who finds reading or writing hard

In Learning Supports a parent can switch on Reading support (everything read aloud with each word highlighted, an easier font, extra spacing, answering by tapping or out loud) or Writing support (sentence starters and organizers from Clara, and ideas counting more than spelling).

What this is not

  • There is no separate Grade 1 or Grade 2 English course beyond phonics. Handwriting and read-alouds in those years are yours to do on paper.
  • Clara can be wrong about a piece of writing. Read her feedback, and read your child's work yourself.
  • It is not a classical or literature-based program built around a reading list of whole books.

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Before your child starts: what we collect and why

We collect only what it takes to teach your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers and progress, and their chat with Clara (written by Anthropic's AI, read aloud by OpenAI). Nobody trains AI on it or sells it, and you can see or delete it any time. You create your child's account yourself. Paying by card is how you give consent.

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Your consent is needed before we collect anything from your child, and we collect nothing without it. You create your child's account yourself; they never sign up alone.

  • What we collect from your child: the first name and sign-in you choose, their answers, time on lessons and progress, and their chat with Clara. Used to run the lessons, build their transcript and show you how they are doing.
  • Who else handles it: Anthropic (an AI company) receives the chat text and the lesson, with your child's first name but no last name or account details, to write Clara's replies. That is how Clara works, so it is part of the service. If you switch on answering out loud for a child, their voice is turned into text on our own server and then discarded; it is never sent to another company. OpenAI turns lesson text and Clara's replies (which can include your child's first name) into the read-aloud voice. Our email provider sends you reports about your child. Nobody trains AI on your child's data, and nobody sells it.
  • Your rights: see everything collected from your child, have it deleted, or stop further collection at any time, from your account or by emailingour support address. If you refuse the AI sharing above, Clara cannot teach, so the service cannot run. Chats are deleted after 30 days.
  • Safety: if your child writes something suggesting they may be hurt or in danger, we email you and Clareza's owner the same day.

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Questions parents ask

Does Clareza teach phonics?

Yes. Learning to Read: Systematic Phonics covers kindergarten to Grade 2, and its first unit is a free printable at /free/learning-to-read.

Is the English curriculum Common Core aligned?

Yes. English follows the Common Core State Standards.

Is there a free reading sample?

Yes. Grade 3 Reading, Unit 1, Finding the Evidence, is a free 31-page printable at /free/grade-3-reading, and the phonics unit is at /free/learning-to-read.

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