Read together. Understand more.
LearningGuides turns any book into an adventure your child truly understands. A friendly virtual guide asks thoughtful questions that build comprehension, inference, and real-life connections — with printable PDF guides you can keep forever.
How it works
Three easy steps from story time to “I really get it!”
1 · Create your free account
Sign up in seconds, pick a friendly virtual reading guide, and you're ready.
2 · Choose a learning guide
Browse guides for beloved books, unlock them with tokens, and start reading.
3 · Read, answer & print
Work through the questions online, then export a printable PDF with your own personal code.
Angela Hogg with her family · Shelbyville, Kentucky
Every guide is written by a certified teacher — and a mom who still sits on the couch and reads.
LearningGuides is created and maintained by Angela Hogg, a certified elementary teacher with a Master's in Elementary Education. She taught at Simpsonville Elementary, has substituted for fourteen years, led Sunday School and VBS, and raised three readers of her own in Shelbyville, Kentucky.
After years of advocating for her youngest child's advanced needs in public school, Angela began homeschooling in January 2025. These guides come out of that living room: professional pedagogy, family-tested questions, and the belief that children understand a book more deeply when someone who loves them asks the right thing at the right time.
Read Angela's storyLearning guides for the books kids love
Every guide includes before, during, and after-reading sections — each packed with questions that require both text evidence and your child's own thinking.
Skills your child will build
Text Evidence
Kids learn to go back into the story and find the words that prove their answers.
Inference
Questions guide readers to read between the lines and understand what's unsaid.
Making Connections
Children link the story to their own life, other books, and the wider world.
Real-Life Application
Every guide ends by turning big ideas into actions kids can take this week.
Prediction
Readers practice thinking ahead and checking their guesses against the text.
Vocabulary
Word-detective prompts help build a richer vocabulary from context clues.
Meet your virtual guides
Angela · Mom
Warm, patient, and always cheering you on.
Hannah · Teen
Energetic and curious — let's dig into the good stuff.
Charlie · College Boy
A big-picture thinker who loves a good story.
Chuck · Dad
Down-to-earth and encouraging, one step at a time.
Harvey · Preteen Boy
Playful, funny, and always up for a challenge.
Your Guide · Custom
Make it yours — pick a name, look, and color.
Simple, family-friendly tokens
10 tokens
$4.99
A couple of guides to get going.
25 tokens
$9.99
A month of steady reading adventures.
50 tokens
$17.99
Build out a full home library.
100 tokens
$29.99
Every reader in the house, covered.