We are a small but mighty community of readers.
Our story began with the idea of bringing homeschooled students together online to read and discuss literature. We wanted to launch a business, but it turned into something more.
We created a thriving community of like-minded home-educating families filled with real kids with an alphabet of diagnoses between them.
Ms. Jenn cosplayed Coraline for World Book Day.
With over 20 years of home-educating experience, Jennie has a way of connecting with homeschooled kids because she raised five of her own.
Maybe you’ve tried online classes, and your neurodiverse student couldn’t sit still or was bored by the lecture format.
We Are:
Reader response-centered
Guided primarily by student insights and questions
Structured for student independence, responsibility, and ownership
Flexible and fluid; never look the same twice
Part of a balanced literacy program
We Aren’t:
Teacher- and text-centered
Guided primarily by teacher- or curriculum-based questions
Unstructured, uncontrolled “talk time” without accountability
Tied to a prescriptive “recipe”
The entire ELA curriculum
Jenn Naughton
Jenn Naughton
Inspired by her grandmother’s bookshelves, Jenn Naughton (she/her) continues the family tradition of burying her face in a book whenever possible. As a professional book reviewer, she reads more than three hundred books a year in a variety of genres. Believing that the only thing better than reading a good story is chatting about it, she created the Bookish Society in 2020 to share her love of books with the next generation of readers. Jenn is a veteran homeschooler who has graduated four of her five children. She works from her studio near Chicago, Illinois, with her longtime partner and their teenage son.