Each Reading Journal is designed for a different stage of reading development, so you can choose the level that best fits your child. As a general guide, Elementary is for grades 2 - 5, Middle School for grades 6 - 8, and High School for grades 9 - 12. These grade ranges are simply a starting point, so choose the journal that matches your child’s current reading skills and gives them the right level of challenge.

Your child chooses the books that interest them, including both fiction and nonfiction, giving them more ownership over their reading and the freedom to create a reading curriculum around books they actually want to read. They can use books they already know and love, choose something new from the library, or use the included age-appropriate book list for suggested titles selected for their character and quality.

The Not Consumed team exists for one purpose: to help your family grow in faith so you can live #NotConsumed. We are homeschool parents with over 220 years of combined homeschooling experience, advanced degrees in education and curriculum design, and a deep love for serving families well. Every Bible study, family resource, and homeschool curriculum we create is anchored in Scripture and made to be practical, clear, and easy to use, because we know your days are already full.

We believe the best learning happens when families gather around God's Word together, so we create resources that work across ages and stages to make that time meaningful, approachable, and real.

We are Bible-believing evangelical Christians. It's our mission to create products that handle the Word of God accurately and literally. We aim to get families into the Word for themselves and challenge them to read and think about it carefully rather than relying on the words and ideas of others. We believe all families should be asking about the theology of the resources they use, as nothing is neutral and everything has a worldview. Here is what we believe:

The Bible is God's Word and the final authority for everything we believe and how we live. It is completely true and trustworthy in all that it says, given to us by God down to its very words. There is one God who has always existed as three Persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God created all things, including human beings, by His own direct act. Salvation is a free and forever-secure gift, received by grace through faith in the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus came in human flesh, was born of a virgin, and rose bodily from the grave. He will one day return in person, in His own body, to reign on the earth for a thousand years. This return will be personal, bodily, and premillennial.

Read our complete Statement of Faith here.

Though schools can be accredited, there is not an accreditation program for curriculum.