Homeschool Curriculum Producers Editing and Proofreading Services

Homeschool curriculum is used by a parent who is teaching a subject they may not have studied since school, to a child who will not accept the authority a classroom teacher gets automatically, with no colleague to ask and no department to fall back on. Materials written by educators for educators fail here in a predictable way: they assume the reader can recognise a misconception, improvise an alternative explanation, and judge when to move on. A parent needs those judgements supplied.

We edit what homeschool curriculum producers and home education publishers produce — parent teaching notes and lesson guidance, student books and workbooks, scope and sequence documentation for parents, subject knowledge notes for the teaching parent, answer keys with explanations rather than answers alone, assessment and progress checking material, record-keeping templates for regulatory requirements, guidance on adapting for multiple ages, materials lists and preparation instructions, support for subjects the parent finds difficult, transition and reintegration material for returning to school or entering examinations, catalogue and sample material, and community and support forum content. Our editors write for a competent adult who is not a teacher.

The parent teaching note is the document that distinguishes usable homeschool material from a textbook with a preface. What a parent needs, before a lesson they are about to teach cold, is what this lesson is actually for and how it connects to what came before; the two or three ways children typically go wrong here, described so they are recognisable when they happen; what to say when that happens, in words rather than as a pedagogical principle; how to tell whether the child has understood it or merely produced the right answer; and what to do if they clearly have not — whether to press on, go back, or leave it for a fortnight. We write these so all of that fits before the lesson rather than in an appendix, and so the answer key explains why an answer is right, because a parent marking work needs to be able to respond to a child who disagrees. Material written this way is what allows a parent to teach fractions on a Tuesday having last thought about them in 1998.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including material in development. We are editors rather than teachers or curriculum specialists, and we offer no view on subject content, pedagogy, or any regulatory requirement applying to home education in your jurisdiction. What we can do is make the guidance usable by a parent teaching alone.