Odyssey: Reading & Math

Odyssey is a school year of daily practice that a child will actually sit down with. Start with the first adventure, a whole one: five missions, every leg, every grade, and the medal at the end. If it suits your child, the rest of the year opens from Base Camp, once. It is not a subscription. Thirty-six adventures in all. Five days each. About twenty minutes a day. Every day is one mission, and every mission is three legs: RECON — a passage written for the age, most of them true nonfiction and some of them stories built on real facts, followed by questions that can only be answered from the page. Ravens in Alaska. A volcano observatory. A lighthouse whose log book doesn’t add up. NAVIGATION — five math problems at the grade you set, built out of the same story. No worksheet tone, no wall of numbers. ORDERS — one follow-the-directions task, because reading every step before you start is…