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- Unit Studies, Booklists, Memory Work, & More!
- Family Book Clubs & Read-Alouds
- Built-in Assessments & Record-Keeping
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Writing
Encourage & guide your young authors in writing development - & even publish their own books!
- Become an Author & Book Sharing
- Essay and Inquiry-Based Writing
- Authentic & Informal Writing
- Grammar Skills & More!
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Vocabulary
Increase vocabulary & spelling skills with our specially designed modules that gauge & guide progress!
- Vocabulary & Definitions
- Spelling Lists & Practice
- Clozes in Power Texts
- Interactive Word Work
Fluency
Improve language fluency by connecting speaking, listening, & writing with important facts & subjects!
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Fluency
Improve language fluency by connecting speaking, listening, & writing with important facts & subjects!
- Read-Alouds
- Retelling/Narration
- Speak-Listen-Write
- Memory Module
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How many parent accounts are included with a child's license?
Every family account includes two Parent Accounts.
I am part of a homeschool group and we share teaching responsibilities. How can I access those accounts?
LightSail has created a Teacher/Coach role that can connect with multiple accounts. This is available as an add-on purchase. This account acts as additional parent with full teacher control to all connected accounts.
Is your platform only Faith-Based?
LightSail is available for both Faith-Based and Secular families. A parent can choose to allow or hide faith-based content including Unit Studies. LightSail has created hundreds of faith-based Unit Studies, Bookmarks, Quotations, and Memory Modules.
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How does LightSail’s ChildSafe protection work?
At LightSail, a parent’s ability to oversee their child’s online experience and align it with their faith and values is of the utmost importance. To this end, LightSail contains an entire suite of parental control features and never-before-seen ChildSafe Content Controls giving parents ultimate peace of mind.
These content controls contain dozens of nuanced subcategories for potentially objectionable material based on both maturity and religious factors. Then, it shows parents if a book contains a reference to any of those subcategories and allows them to block or allow single titles or entire subcategories for each child individually. Our ChildSafe Content Controls offer unprecedented insight into and control over the content your children consume without the need to read every book in advance.
- Block or allow individual pieces of content.
- Block or allow entire subcategories of content.
- Require a child to request parental approval before opening entire subcategories of content.
- Block, allow, or require requesting parental approval for all Classics library content.
- Block or require requesting parental approval for all unrated content.
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Parental Controls
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We are LightSail for Homeschoolers—a complete language arts platform built on the shoulders of LightSail Education, advancing the literacy skills of K-12 students in public, private, and charter schools since 2012.
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Fun built into every aspect of LightSail’s platform encourages kids on every step of their learning journey. Badges, Social Sharing, and Gift Rewards are all within the Parental Controls!
Here a child clicks to go back to their Dashboard
Here a child clicks to view the Library
Here a child clicks to retake missed cloze assessments to work on their missed vocabulary
Here a child can find all Book Chats, book club chats, clubhouse chats, and family chats
Here a child clicks to view their earned badges and all badges they can earn
Here a child clicks to open their more menu
A parent can set a rule to unlock a video after reading a set number of minutes
You can download current article just top this button
Here your child can view their current reading goals
This button opens our Personalized Reader Feature to help struggling readers enjoy their reading
Here a child can click to listen to the text read aloud
View related content
Click to open related articles
Select a Word
Here a child can view open Book/Article chats
Here a child can create a Journal input and update existing Journal inputs
Here a child can view all Parts of Speech (Verbs, Nouns etc) found on this page
Here a child can view all Syllables found on this page
Here a child can change the font type, font size, download the article, and change the text to speech voice