When Bianca Skartland created Foster Avenue Learning Workbooks, she made one decision that sets the entire series apart from every other handwriting curriculum available: every single stage uses the same Scripture verses.
It wasn't an accident. It was the whole point.
The Problem with Most Curriculum Series
Most multi-level curriculum series are designed to be completed sequentially — one child, one book at a time, moving through the stages over the years. That's a perfectly fine approach for a single child. But most homeschool families don't have a single child. They have a preschooler and a second grader and a fifth grader, all at different skill levels, all needing something different — but all sitting at the same table, in the same home, being raised in the same faith.
A curriculum that sends each child off into their own separate world of disconnected content misses something beautiful. It misses the chance for the whole family to be in it together.
One Scripture. Every Child. Every Day.
Foster Avenue was built around a simple but powerful idea: what if every child in the family was writing the same Scripture verse, just at their own level? Your 4-year-old in Stage One traces letters while seeing the verse for the first time. Your 7-year-old in Stage Two writes individual letters and short words from the same verse. Your 9-year-old in Stage Three copies the full sentence with growing confidence. Your 12-year-old in Stage Four writes it in flowing cursive. Same words. Four different hands. One family, hiding the same truth in their hearts together.
What Happens When Families Learn This Way
Something remarkable happens when siblings discover they're all working on the same Scripture. The older child becomes a teacher, reading the verse aloud to the younger one. The younger child surprises the family by reciting it from memory. The verse becomes part of the family's shared language — quoted at dinner, whispered at bedtime, written on hearts long after the workbooks are closed.
This is what Bianca envisioned when she created Foster Avenue. Not just a handwriting curriculum, but a tool for families to grow in God's Word together — naturally, quietly, one page at a time.
The Verse at the Heart of It All
The Scripture woven through the Foster Avenue series is Joshua 24:15 — "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." It is a declaration of family faith. A verse about choosing, together, who you will serve. A verse that a 4-year-old can begin to know and a 12-year-old can write in cursive and mean with their whole heart. It seemed like exactly the right verse to build a family handwriting series around.
Start the Journey Together
All four stages of the Foster Avenue Learning Workbooks series are available at fosteravenuebooks.com. Each book is $20-$23. Buy one for each child and watch your family grow in skill and Scripture — together.