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Your students can already decode Hebrew words. Now they're ready to learn to read and understand modern Hebrew using Shalom Ivrit 1!The first book in a three-year series, Shalom Ivrit 1 is built on the theme of the Jewish holidays. Students encounter Hebrew as a living language by building on their everyday and holiday experiences, at home and in school. Two endearing and humorous characters — Bar the Mouse and Malmalah the Ant — help teach 160 key words and an additional 90 holiday and enrichment words, as well as comprehension and language skills. Students read about such familiar activities as eating honey on Rosh Hashanah, lighting candles on Shabbat and Hanukkah, dressing in costume on Purim, meeting a new teacher, and learning in school. Basic grammar — including the present tense, masculine and feminine nouns, and adjectives in the singular and plural — are presented simply and clearly.A variety of comprehension activities — including puzzles, cloze technique (sentence completion), true and false, and word/picture matches — reinforce instruction and provide practice, as do additional stories and poems, dialogues, blessings, songs, and riddles.Contents:ShalomWhere Is the Honey?In the SukkahFamilyIn the ClassroomShabbat ShalomHanukkahDinah Is HappyTu B'ShevatA Beautiful WorldToday Is PurimThe (Passover) SederThe Blue and White FlagEvery Year

Expand your students' ability to read and understand modern Hebrew using Shalom Ivrit 2! The second book in a three-year series, Shalom Ivrit 2 is built on the theme of Jewish values. Students learn Hebrew as a living language through engaging short stories, folktales, and midrashim. In the process, they explore key Jewish values, such as self-respect, friendship, and humility. Students acquire 151 new words and develop their language and comprehension skills. Basic grammar--including present tense verb endings, possessives, and root letters--is presented sequentially and clearly, increasing familiarity with Hebrew word structure and syntax as an integral part of language acquisition. Over 170 illustrations help make Shalom Ivrit 2 lively and motivating.A variety of comprehension activities--including puzzles, cloze technique (sentence completion), true and false, and word/picture matches--reinforce instruction and provide practice, as do additional stories, poems, dialogues, and riddles.CONTENTS:Peace/ShalomGood Manners/Derech EretzTruth/EmetHappy with One's Lot/Samei'ah B'helkoIndustriousness/Haritzut 6. Self-Respect/Kavod AtzmiGenerosity/N'divutFriendship/Y'didutHumility/AnavahPeace in the Home/Sh'lom Bayit

Shalom Ivrit 3, the final book in the Shalom Ivrit series, brings to life stories of spirited young teens at home, at camp, with friends, and in Israel. The new vocabulary, including mah'sheiv (computer), s'deih-teufah (airport), pitzah (pizza) and mahaneh (camp), reflects the interests and experiences of teens. Students have fun and learn about Israel as their ability to read and understand Hebrew continues to grow.With 190 new words, students’ ability to conduct simple conversations in Hebrew, using both the present and past tenses, steadily increases as they progress through the book.Features and benefits:High-interest, age-appropriate stories motivate students to improve their reading fluency and comprehension.The interdisciplinary approach of teaching about Israel in Hebrew provides students with an enriched, dynamic learning experience.Vocabulary boxes (milonim) introduce new vocabulary and a cumulative list of all new vocabulary appears in the back of the book as a resource for students.Comprehension activities—including true and false, word picture matches, cloze technique (sentence completion), and puzzles—provide students with the practice they need to build and strengthen skills.More than 120 age-appropriate, full-color illustrations and photographs enliven the text and cue students for textual meaning.Basic grammar—including present tense and past tense verb endings, and root letters—is presented sequentially and clearly, increasing familiarity with Hebrew word structure and syntax.

Students learn prayers from the Shabbat morning Torah service and concluding prayers including Aleinu Kaddish and Ein Keloheinu. They connect key themes and concepts such as the Torah as a tree of life to source material from the Torah Mishnah midrashim and the haggadah.

Prayer Companion 1 contains blessings for the home and synagogue including Shabbat and the holidays and selected prayers from the Friday evening and Shabbat morning services. Each chapter is tied thematically to the Shalom Ivrit 1 student text.

Students learn the seven blessings in the Shabbat morning Amidah. They uncover Jewish values and virtues‚ humility, acts of loving kindness, healing others, sacred time, showing appreciation and more‚ and think of ways to make them part of their own lives.

Complete, easy-to-follow instructions for making box puppets and theaters, drinking straw puppets, tagboard puppets, paper puppets, sock puppets, and more, with diagrams and lists of supplies. Includes creative suggestions for teaching Jewish subjects-including Hebrew-with puppets and an extensive bibliography on puppets, plays, and materials.

Age-appropriate, read-aloud stories about rabbis and sages, kings and common folk explore Jewish values and themes and expand your students' Jewish world. Activities for role play, arts and crafts, music, science, and more, plus evocative discussion questions help teachers use literature fully and creatively in the classroom.

Twenty well-crafted plays appropriate for both elementary and high school students on topics including Bible Israel Holocaust major holidays folktales and Jewish values.