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Learning Levels
Study Guides

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Learning Levels Study Guides are detailed "texbooks" for students in mounted and unmounted lessons

A study guide has a page or two of basic information for each objective in that Learning Level.

Every Learning Level*

There's a printable study guide for almost every Level in our curriculums.

*Western versions of the Purple and Teal Horsemanship guides are in progress!

Knowledge and Skills

They provide details for important concepts and terminology, reinforcing the lessons students learn in the barn and arena.

Horseshoe Hunt

Challenge students to find the golden horseshoe hidden in every study guide!

Rainbow Level

For very young children, the Rainbow Level study guides are designed as coloring books.

Tips for printing and using study guides

Study guides are PDF downloads designed for full-color desktop printers.
We made the study guides very colorful because it's seriously difficult to get kids (and many adults) to read anything that is all black-and-white. If you want them to read it, print in full color!
Pages are formatted for 2-sided printing on 8.5" x 11" paper, with 0.75" inside margins sufficient for 3-hole punching.
Download printing instructions and samples to test print.

Print single pages to use as handouts for lessons, clinics or camps.
Print entire guides to distribute to your students for self-study.
Share the study guide PDF files with your students so they can read them on laptops or tablets.
Print a bunch of guides to use as textbooks for a full unmounted course.
Print a few guides to keep in your barn Lending Library.
Use study guides to make sure all of your instructors are teaching the same things!
Save the PDF file to your desktop or mobile device and use it as an offline reference.
Make sure your students remember what they read by mixing in plenty of interactive and hands-on activities to supplement study guide information.
Your program is likely to have a different way of teaching some parts of the mounted or unmounted curriculum — and that's okay! Use the study guide pages that work for you. Modify other pages to suit your situation and goals. You can find editing tips on our How to Customize Learning Levels page.