Abeka Homeschool vs BookShark

Abeka Homeschool provides curriculum and teaching materials for students from K4 through grade 12, with textbooks, video lessons, teaching aids, kits and digital products. Abeka Academy offers full-grade video instruction across language arts, math, history and geography, science and health, and Bible. Lessons are taught by master teachers and available by streaming or DVD. The curriculum is faith-based and uses a spiral approach that revisits material through repetition and reinforcement. A family dashboard can support calendar customization, lesson assignment and tracking, grades and assignments, though available functions depend on purchased products. Digital textbooks come through VitalSource, with notes and highlights exportable to Microsoft OneNote. Abeka Academy’s accredited program is accredited by FACCS and MSA CESS; report cards and transcripts cost extra. The hybrid curriculum includes lesson plans, assessments, parent guidance and offline access. Abeka offers a free trial but no free plan. Prices vary by grade, courses, program option and book purchases, and additional fees can apply.

BookShark is a literature-based homeschool curriculum for Pre-K through age 16, with History, Science, Language Arts, and several math options. Rather than fixed grades, it uses flexible age-based levels, and children within three years of age can share a Reading with History program while following separate Math and Language Arts levels. Schedules run for 36 weeks, four days per week, with lesson plans, assessments, and parent guidance. BookShark Virtual adds online reading schedules, assessments with instant auto-graded results, parent work tracking, customizable assessments, and student messaging. It integrates Math-U-See and accepts schedules or assignment uploads for Singapore, Singapore Dimensions, Saxon, and RightStart. Virtual does not replace the physical books. Each seat covers one student and one teacher account, and courses must be used within six months of purchase. Families can try the first week of a Virtual course free. Listed Virtual seats range from $88, paid once to $300, paid once; BookShark's pricing note also says From $309.43 · 7-day trial.