Memoria Press Literature Guides

Memoria Press Literature Guides are student and teacher guides for individual titles, listed grade by grade from first grade through twelfth. On its Third Grade Literature Guide Set page, the publisher says its guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition skills.

Last updated: 2026-10-15 · Every Homeschool Editorial Team

At a glance

Method	Classical, literature-based study guides with reading notes, vocabulary, and comprehension and discussion questions, per the Charlotte's Web guide page
Worldview	Christian. The publisher says its products are developed from the perspective of a Christian worldview, and its FAQ says some materials carry explicit references to the faith and to Scripture and others are implicit. The pages we read do not name a denomination
Grades	First through twelfth grade on the listing, from StoryTime Treasures (Grade 1) to Anna Karenina (Grades 11-12)
Formats	Print student and teacher guides (the product pages list saddle-stitched, perfect-bound, or spiral-bound editions), with digital lesson plans offered separately for some guides, as on the Charlotte's Web page; the upper-school student books are described as non-consumable
Cost tier	Budget; most student guides are $13.95 (retrieved October 2026)
Parent intensity	2
ESA-common	Not stated by the publisher; confirm with your state program
Accredited	Not stated for the guides; Memoria Academy says it is accredited by the Classical Latin School Association (CLSA)
Established	The publisher's pages do not state when the guide line began
Website	memoriapress.com

Our scoreboard (1-5)

Criterion	Score	One-line reason
Academic rigor	4	In our assessment, vocabulary, comprehension, and discussion work that goes beyond plot recall; the Julius Caesar and Pride & Prejudice guides also list essay prompts
Ease of teaching	5	The publisher says the Charlotte's Web Teacher Guide includes teaching guidelines and answers to all exercises, quizzes, and tests in the student guide
Content quality	4	In our assessment, a broad title list, from StoryTime Treasures to Anna Karenina and The Divine Comedy
Flexibility	5	Each title has its own student and teacher guide, sold individually, so in our assessment a family can add one guide to any reading plan
Value for money	5	Most student guides are $13.95 and the Charlotte's Web Set, with the novel, is $40.89 (retrieved October 2026)
Worldview scope	4	The publisher's FAQ says faith and Scripture are explicit in some materials and implicit in others; the Charlotte's Web page describes the aim of its literature guides as instructing students in observation and discernment
Visual/design	3	In our assessment, a clean, workbook-style layout rather than a visually engaging one
Support resources	4	Teacher guides for each title, streaming lecture videos with the Iliad and Odyssey sets, and a teaching-guidelines video mentioned on the Charlotte's Web page

Who the publisher is

Memoria Press says Cheryl Lowe founded it and that it has developed a K-12 classical curriculum at Highlands Latin School in Louisville, Kentucky, where its programs are written and field-tested. Its mailing address is in Louisville, per the footer of its home page.

The Literature Guides page lists student and teacher guides under each grade from First Grade (StoryTime Treasures) through Twelfth Grade, plus a section of Alternate Literature Options. The guide pages name different authors. The Charlotte's Web Student Guide lists Memoria Press as its author, the Treasure Island Student Guide lists HLS Faculty, and the Pride & Prejudice Student Guide, Third Edition lists Leta Sundet.

The listing places these titles by grade:

Grade	Titles listed
First	StoryTime Treasures
Second	Brambly Hedge, Amelia Bedelia, Tales From Beatrix Potter, Little House in the Big Woods, The Courage of Sarah Noble, Prairie School
Third	The Moffats, Charlotte's Web, Farmer Boy
Fourth	Winnie-the-Pooh, Dangerous Journey, The Blue Fairy Book, Homer Price
Fifth	Lassie Come-Home, Heidi, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Sixth	King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Door in the Wall, Adam of the Road
Seventh	The Hobbit, The Bronze Bow, Anne of Green Gables, The Trojan War
Eighth	The Wind in the Willows, Julius Caesar, Treasure Island
Ninth	A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Beowulf the Warrior
Tenth	Pride & Prejudice, Macbeth, The Scarlet Letter, Romeo and Juliet
Eleventh	The Divine Comedy
Twelfth	Anna Karenina, King Lear, Hamlet, A Tale of Two Cities

The same page's Alternate Literature Options include Mr. Popper's Penguins (Grades 3-4), The Magician's Nephew (Grades 5-7), Little Women (Grades 8-9), and As You Like It (Grades 7+), among others. The Iliad and Odyssey guides are sold in the publisher's Classical Studies catalog rather than on the Literature Guides listing; the publisher's classical studies timeline places them in Grade 8 and The Aeneid in Grade 9.

The core pedagogy

The Charlotte's Web page says Memoria Press literature guides seek to instruct students in observation and discernment. Guide contents vary by title:

• The Charlotte's Web Student Guide, Second Edition contains reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension and discussion questions, enrichment, and essential questions.
• The Hamlet Student Book contains vocabulary studies, reading notes, comprehension questions, Socratic discussion questions, work with quotes, and literary and rhetorical devices. The page says the upper-school student books are now in a smaller, non-consumable format that teaches students to take their own notes.
• The Julius Caesar and Pride & Prejudice guides list reading notes, vocabulary, comprehension questions, discussion questions, and essay prompts.
• Several guides list quotations among their contents, including The Hobbit, The Door in the Wall, Homer Price, and the Odyssey Student Guide.

On the teacher side, the Third Grade Literature Guide Set page says the Farmer Boy Teacher Guide offers teaching guidelines, answers to all exercises in the Student Guide, and quizzes and tests. The Iliad & Odyssey Complete Set page says its teacher guides have inset student pages with answers, teacher notes for each lesson, quizzes, and tests.

Signature mechanics: (1) A guide for each title, with reading notes and vocabulary. (2) Question sets, comprehension and discussion questions, with essay prompts in some upper-school guides. (3) Teacher guides with answers, quizzes, and tests. (4) Quotations in some guides. (5) Streaming video with the Iliad and Odyssey sets: the Iliad & Odyssey Complete Set page says the videos feature Sean Brooks, one of Highlands Latin School's master teachers, and that streaming is a lifetime membership.

How the guides are packaged

The publisher sells book-specific lesson plans separately and describes them as weekly schedules; its Individual Literature Lesson Plans page lists, for example, Charlotte's Web at 9 weeks, Farmer Boy at 12 weeks, and The Moffats at 11 weeks. The Third Grade page sells the Third Grade Literature Guide Set, which contains the Farmer Boy, Charlotte's Web, and The Moffats student and teacher guides. The set page says the set does not include the corresponding novels, and a version with novels is sold separately. The set page also says each lesson includes a word study. The Ninth Grade page similarly sells a Ninth Grade Literature Guide Set with and without novels.

What we think they do well

Guides sold one title at a time. Each title has its own student guide and teacher guide on the listing, mostly at $13.95 each (retrieved October 2026). In our assessment, a family can add a guide for a single novel without buying a grade-level set.

Teacher guides with answers. The Charlotte's Web and Farmer Boy teacher guides and the Iliad and Odyssey teacher guides are described as including answers, quizzes, and tests, with teaching guidelines or teacher notes. In our assessment, this makes grading practical for a parent who has not read the novel recently.

A long title list. The listing runs from StoryTime Treasures in first grade to Anna Karenina and The Divine Comedy, and includes Pride & Prejudice, A Tale of Two Cities, Treasure Island, and several Shakespeare plays. In our assessment, a family can follow one publisher's guides across many years if it chooses.

What we think they do poorly

Writing is one component among several. The publisher's Third Grade Literature Guide Set page says its guides focus on vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, and composition skills, and the Julius Caesar and Pride & Prejudice guides list essay prompts. The other guide pages we read list reading notes, vocabulary, and comprehension and discussion questions without describing a composition program. In our assessment, a family that wants a full writing program should check each guide's contents and may need separate writing materials; the publisher sells writing products such as Introduction to Composition for Grades 3-4.

A written question format. In our assessment, a family that prefers open-ended oral discussion of a novel may find a written question format constraining.

Novels are sold separately in some sets. The Third Grade Literature Guide Set does not include the novels, and the version with novels costs more (see below). A family should confirm what a set includes before ordering.

Who it fits / who it doesn't

• Pick Memoria Press Literature Guides if: you want a structured way to teach close reading of a single novel at a time; you want teacher guides with answers, quizzes, and tests; you are comfortable with a Christian worldview, which the publisher says its products are developed from; you want to add one guide at a time to a reading plan.

• Skip Memoria Press Literature Guides if: you prefer discussion-based literature without written comprehension work; you want a language-arts program that covers writing, grammar, and spelling in the same guide; you already have literature guides in your core curriculum; you want guides for recently published young adult titles.

Cost honest assessment

All prices were retrieved from memoriapress.com in October 2026.

Item	Price
Most student and teacher guides on the listing	$13.95
StoryTime Treasures Student Guide, Third Edition	$17.90
StoryTime Treasures Teacher Guide, Third Edition	$20.05
Second-grade teacher guides	$8.15
The Divine Comedy Student Guide and Teacher Guide (each)	$20.50
Charlotte's Web Set (novel, Student Guide, Teacher Guide)	$40.89
Third Grade Literature Guide Set (guides only)	$75.36
Third Grade Literature Guide Set with novels	$108.63
Ninth Grade Literature Guide Set (guides only)	$100.48
Ninth Grade Literature Guide Set with novels	$149.04
Iliad & Odyssey Complete Set	$174.34

The Iliad & Odyssey Complete Set includes the Samuel Butler translations, student guides, teacher guides, and streaming instructional videos; DVDs are an optional add-on. Single-title sets on the Ninth Grade page include the Hamlet Set at $36.85 and the King Lear Set at $35.85.

ESA eligibility notes

The memoriapress.com pages that we read do not mention education savings accounts or state marketplace approvals, so we do not list any here. A family using an ESA should ask its state program whether Memoria Press is an approved vendor and whether individual guides and novels are reimbursable. Because the publisher says some of its materials carry explicit references to the faith and to Scripture, families should also check their state program's rules on religious materials.

Alternatives

• Progeny Press, a family comparing other literature study guides can look at Progeny Press; its store lists study guides for individual titles and describes its Amos Fortune, Free Man study guide as including comprehension questions, vocabulary, and activities.
• Veritas Press, a family comparing Memoria Press's guides with another publisher's literature offerings can read our Veritas Press review, which scores it on the same rubric.
• Total Language Plus, a family would choose Total Language Plus over Memoria when it wants one guide that covers more than literature; its site says its Discovery Guides integrate comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, grammar, and writing.