2026/27 Programs
Classic Stories (ages 9-12), Great Detectives (ages 11-14) and Grand Adventures (ages 12-15) are our primary courses this year. In each course, students read and discuss excellent fiction from 1880-1990, carefully sequenced to build student capacity, and participate in a rigorous, exciting creative writing workshop program and dynamic online community.
These programs are designed to be a substantial extracurricular activity, or part of a homeschool curriculum, for a semester or full academic year. Students may join these courses at the beginning of any calendar month if space permits. All courses are priced as follows: $288 for the full academic year, $170 per semester, or $45/month.
See course descriptions to decide which course is most suitable for your student.
Check out our mini courses as well (scroll down or use the menu at top of page).
From Our Founders:
"As career educators, we've watched the decline of higher-level literacy skills among kids, teens and young adults in real time. We've built Nifty Lit Club to build the skills young people need to read widely, with curiosity, across genres and centuries.
We've also designed these courses to deliver the kind of homeschool and extracurricular programs we look for as parents: high value programs that deliver meaningful content and build real skills, taught by people who know what they're doing; affordable, flexible, fun.
'People who know what they're doing' are the most important pieces of the puzzle, and the hardest to find. We design and facilitate every Nifty course ourselves."
- Nifty co-founders Darren and Suzanne Alexander.
➜ Read more about why we launched these courses and what we offer to your student:
UPCOMING COURSES
Free Writing Curriculum!
Each month, we offer a free PDF download containing a writing curriculum to go with a wonderful book that we recommend. Each book is split into four weeks, with two writing exercises per week.
The writing exercises in these free packets are simplified versions of what our students do on Mondays and Tuesdays in our courses - two-part exercises that get students looking closely at how the text is written, then trying their own hand at achieving the same effect in their own writing.
In our courses, these exercises are completed collaboratively, with other students, and that adds quite a bit of fun and meaning to the process.
We hope you enjoy this month's free download!
