What kind of reading is included in WP LA?

WinterPromise has traditionally included quite a bit of pleasure reading in their programs. Themed programs have always featured Adventure Reading, books that can be enjoyed as a family, which support the theme or time period.

Meanwhile, language arts programs have always featured Readers or Literature that are right at a student’s correct reading level. Parents have always been able to choose a reading set for their LA program that is also cross-curricularly linked to the student’s main study. For LA 5, for example, a parent could choose from several readers sets, and pick one that coordinates with Quest for the Ancient World, or with Children Around the World, for example.

However, we here at WinterPromise see things changing in the world of books. A great wave of e-reading devices is changing how we read and use and think about books.

As we here at WP think about the future of books, we see this change as a great one! Ebooks are less expensive to produce, cost nothing to ship, allow more books to stay in print than might in traditional print formats, and — best of all — offer a great option to help homeschoolers keep costs down.

Now that devices like e-readers, tablets, and smartphones can offer you instant, downloadable books, it makes a lot of sense to us to let parents have the option to utilize this entirely new way of reading. We feel this will allow WP to focus on bring you even more ebooks in the future, make WP more affordable than ever, and allow for a whole lot of new ways to use WP!

So, we’re offering our parents the option to buy our themed programs and language arts for 3rd to 6th grade without the Adventure Reading or Readers, respectively. They are still scheduled in your guide, of course! Plus, with LA 3 to 6 ebook sets, we’re including our all new eReading Schedules that include questions for the books we’ve always used, and which are still scheduled. You can still order the readers sets, if you want them, but this gives parents options to use ebooks or the library. PLUS — some themed programs and LA include ebook copies of readers!