Homeschool Resources
For homeschool and remote learners, ERB is proud to offer the highest quality assessments and learning tools to help your students master core academic skills and track their learning growth. Each of these assessments and learning tools can be accessed online from anywhere.
ERB Learning Tools
Learning Assessments
Homeschool Supports
learning tools
Help your students master writing skills and build their vocabularies for improved reading comprehension, increased academic achievement, and more learning enjoyment.
Writing Practice Program
Developed by writing teachers, approved by families
For students in Grades 3-12
Our Writing Practice Program (WPP) is a time-tested resource for helping students improve their writing from anywhere. With customizable, self-paced curricula, you can choose what types of writing prompts to assign to tailor courses to your student's unique strengths, needs, and interests.
"We've finally found what we're looking for with WPP! After just one week I see improvement in [my students'] writing and understanding of essay type, structure, and content. The rubrics are great baselines as to what makes a good essay, and the lessons and example essays are helpful tools for improvement. I am proud to see my kids working independently and successfully to reach their writing goals!"
— Wendy McClellan, Parent
Word Voyage Vocabulary Builder
For students in Grades 4-12
Students with increased academic vocabularies achieve greater reading comprehension, more enjoyment of reading, superior writing, and higher standardized test scores. Help your students improve their diction with this easy-to-use online program accessible anywhere, anytime.
"I have used Word Voyage for the past five years because the program explores words more deeply and thoroughly than any other vocabulary text or program I've seen. The customer service is unparalleled; you can expect almost immediate assistance! The company continually improves its offerings. My students are enjoying the new games!"
— Lisa Robbins, Middle School English Teacher, Dana Hall School
learning assessments
Track your student's learning over time to identify strengths, learning gaps, and opportunities for deeper engagement.
Comprehensives from ERB
Tracking homeschoolers' academic growth is crucial to ensure that they are properly challenged and meeting learning goals. Our time-tested Comprehensives from ERB include both the CTP and Milestone Assessments to help you stay on top of your learners' progress securely wherever they live and learn.
We recommend using CTP and Milestones in tandem for the most accurate academic progress tracking. Test CTP in the Fall or Spring and use Milestones to check in with your students across the rest of the year. These assessments are only available to families through one of our homeschool partners (below).
Why CTP and Milestone Assessments from ERB?
Test what you want.
With CTP and Milestones, flexibility comes baked in! You can choose the subtests that best match your needs and your student's learning goals. Administer any or all of the subtests—how you use our assessment tools is up to you!
Test when you want.
CTP and Milestones can be administered across testing seasons so that you can choose when to evaluate your students. Some homeschoolers prefer to test at the start of the year to see where learners are at the outset; others prefer to test at the end of the year to check academic growth. The choice is yours!
Results are relative.
Want to know how your students' academic growth compares to that of other, similar learners? With CTP and Milestones, you have a range of available norms against which you can compare your students' performance, including the highly competitive independent school norm.
ctp
milestones
The Comprehensive Testing Program (CTP) is trusted by schools and homeschool organizations around the world. Available for students in Grades 1-11, this summative, once-per-year exam measures student performance across a range of subject areas:
Mathematics
Quantitative Reasoning
Verbal Reasoning
Vocabulary
Reading Comprehension
Writing Mechanics
Writing Concepts and Skills
Science
Milestones are the new formative assessment from ERB. Following the same norms and learning standards as CTP, Milestone Assessments are streamlined and focus exclusively on the critical subject areas of Reading Comprehension and Mathematics. Administered in 40-minute modules, Milestones were designed to be flexible and fit into every homeschooler's curriculum.
Why Reading Comprehension and Mathematics? Because a survey of thousands of educators told us that those are the subjects most important to them! For homeschoolers, these are also the subjects that capture the broadest picture of your learner's academic development.
Testing Options
Fall
Winter
Spring
Fall CTP + Milestones
CTP
Milestone
Milestone
Spring CTP + Milestones
Milestone
Milestone
CTP
Milestones Only
Coming 2021
Milestone
Milestone
Milestone
Our Homeschool Partners
Do you belong to one of our partner communities? You can purchase ERB Comprehensives through your homeschool community partner. Please reach out to your community representatives for more information and to order.
The purpose of Classical Conversations® is to lead the home-centered education movement by teaching parents and students the classical tools of learning so that they can discover God’s created order and beauty— and as a result— enable others to do the same.
Classical Conversations fulfills its mission and purpose by establishing and supporting Classical Conversations communities across the United States and in several countries, and by empowering parents in the classical, Christian teaching of their children through Parent Practicums. We enable parents everywhere to equip their children with a Christ-centered worldview and the classical “tools of learning” in order to impact the world for God’s glory.
Homeschool Testing Services is more than an end-of-year testing company. HTS understands the need for healthy assessment when it comes to students' personal growth, and provides families around the world with opportunities to test, assess, and encourage learning for their children.
With multiple products and test modalities available, HTS makes testing homeschool students as simple as possible. Providing regular and appropriate assessments for student is critical to learning; this is what drives us, and is captured by our motto: "Healthy Assessment Strengthens Families."
Veritas' roots are as a K-12 curriculum provider to homeschool families and private Christian schools. After 10 years of assisting families to choose the best curriculum for their children and navigate the difficult landscape of not only preparing for college but for life beyond college, we realized that with new technology we could help our families even more.
homeschool supports
Supplemental resources to support homeschool educators and learners.
