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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.

Students will experience the text just as Jews have studied it for nearly 2,000 years. Features twelve key passages from the Mishnah that carry special significance for today's students. Each excerpt is given in both Hebrew and English.

Sometimes it's okay to need a night light!It's fun for Daniel to build and decorate a sukkah with his family, and to eat dinner with friends and neighbors, but he's a little nervous about sleeping in the little hut without a real roof. It's harder this year, because Grandpa has a cold and won't be with Daniel. His older sister, Naomi, seems so brave and keeps teasing him about being scared of the dark, but when night falls and the wind howls, even Naomi is a little afraid. Maybe they both need a night light. Luckily, they can see through the holes in the roof to the magnificent night sky....Realistic sibling relationships and the inspiration provided by the bravery of long-ago ancestors combine in this much-loved story about Sukkot, a weeklong holiday commemorating the forty years Israelites wandered in the desert. New illustrations lend contemporary appeal and a kid-friendly afterword explains more about the holiday and how it applies to peoples' search for shelter today.

"A fun sci-fi take on the tradition of Shabbat, sure to have youngsters joining in with the sound effects." —School Library JournalAn introduction to the traditions of Shabbat, the Jewish day of rest, with a Jetsons twist!In preparation for the weekly Sabbath dinner and celebration, a young girl builds a robot from household junk. The girl and robot become quick friends, vrooming around the space colony, baking challah, making matzah ball soup and getting ready to celebrate with family. Together, the girl and robot light the Shabbat candles and sing the blessings. A science fiction Shabbat, told in fun rhyme with an emphasis on noticing sounds.An author's note explaining Shabbat makes this a fun-filled introduction to this important Jewish ritual.

A panorama of Hebrew prose presented in an English translation that makes these masterly works available to a wide audience.

Teacher edition

A hands-on prayer readiness book for young children. Filled with games and craft activities. My Siddur invites children to make their own prayer book.

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.

Honoring Jewish life at every age and every stage . . .This essential resource covers Jewish life cycle events from birth to death, presenting insights from Jewish tradition, quotations to help ground lessons in Jewish text, an extensive annotated bibliography, and a glossary of Hebrew terms. Skits and hundreds of creative activities for all ages help enliven and enrich the classroom experience.

A teacher's bible for teaching the Five Books of MosesThis invaluable guide for preparing to teach or study the weekly Torah portion provides a precise synopsis of each of the 54 parashiyot, as well as overviews of commentaries and sources, capsule biographies of Torah interpreters, and provocative questions. Over 1,000 unusual strategies help readers analyze, extend, and personalize the text. A bibliography and a thematic index make this an especially useful resource for Bar/Bat Mitzvah preparation, sermon/D'var Torah ideas, and Havurah discussions.

The consummate encyclopedia of holiday activities.

Mastering middot and becoming a mensch . . .This helpful introduction to Jewish virtues (middot) provides substantive overviews of 22 key middot and includes extensive text study material from Tanach, Rabbinic and Post-Rabbinic sources, and the Siddur. Hundreds of imaginative arts activities (language, as well as visual arts, drama, movement, and music) stimulate creativity development and abstract thinking, and offer opportunities for spiritual reflection and expression with an emphasis on incorporating virtues into the "real" lives of students. Sample lesson plans and retreat schedule make this a practical resource for teachers from grades K through adult.Table of Contents:About MiddotAnavah: HumilityDan L'Chaf Zechut: Give the Benefit of the DoubtDibuk Chaverim: Cleaving to FriendsDin V'Rachamim: Justice and MercyEmet: TruthfulnessErech Apayim: Slow to AngerHachnassat Orchim: HospitalityLo Levayesh: Not EmbarrassingMalachah: IndustriousnessMiyut Sichah: Minimizing Small TalkNedivut: GenerosityOhev Zeh et Zeh/Mechabayd Zeh et Zeh: Loving and Honoring One AnotherOmetz Layv: CourageSamayach B'Chelko: Contentment with Your Lot/Makir et Mekomo: Knowing Your Place; Lo Tachmod: Not CovetingSayver Panim Yafot: A Pleasant DemeanorSh'lom Bayit: Peace in the Home/Peace in the FamilyShmiat HaOzen: Attentiveness/Being a Good ListenerShmirat HaGuf: Taking Care of Your BodySimchah: Joy and HappinessSomaych Noflim V'Rofay Cholim: Supporting and HealingTochechah: RebukingYirah: Awe and Reverence

Written in a warm and understanding tone, this guide takes the best in secular early childhood education and applies it to Jewish early childhood education. With extensive bibliographies as well as background information for teachers, individual chapters review developmentally appropriate practice, anti-bias education, storytelling, music, Jewish thematic units, reaching out to interfaith families, keeping kosher at school, and much more.

Eight biographical one-act plays (each 15 to 20 minutes long) feature characters such as Hannah Senesh Bella Abzug Leonard Bernstein Abraham Joshua Heschel Emma Goldman and Yitzhak Rabin and provide an effective and original way to examine the attributes of heroes and heroines. These plays are easy to stage either for a full production or readers' theater and are ideal as an adjunct to Confirmation curriculum.

An essential companion volume to Teaching TorahThis ideal tool for guiding Bar and Bat Mitzvah preparation provides a concise summary of each Haftarah and the rabbinic interpretations attached to it through the generations. Literary and historical analyses, as well as exploration of the connections between the Haftarah and the weekly or holiday Torah portions, make this a key resource for study. Provides an array of ideas for family activities and B'nai Mitzvah projects, as well as Traditional, Reform, and Reconstructionist versions of the Haftarah blessings.

These 21 reading readiness lessons teach the Hebrew letters and their sounds. Units introduce key words and core oral vocabulary through a variety of imaginative fun-filled exercises.

A solid Hebrew phonics review and a prayer readiness program in six to eight class sessions, perfect for the beginning of the school year. Independent seatwork activities, games, and "Super Reading Secrets" to guide students from simple syllable decoding to fluent phrase reading. Blessings for special times and experiences, and for performing mitzvot form the core of each lesson. Optional Language Enrichment sections present vocabulary items and simple sentences that review all the vocabulary introduced in Z'Man Likro.

Presents the Sh'ma and its blessings for both evening and morning services, as well as introductory chapters on Ein Keloheinu and Adon Olam. Phonics review helps solidify and expand existing skills. Ample opportunities for reading practice throughout supplement Hebrew vocabulary and activities that foster understanding of prayer concepts. Synagogue skills and the choreography of Jewish worship teach students how to pray. Conceptual materials and creative worship experiences explore the question of why we pray.

Teaching guide for Z'man L'Tefilah Vol 1 & 2 that includes:In-depth rationale and goals for the programEasy to follow directions, lesson by lesson and page by pageEnglish translations for Hebrew vocabulary items in each chapterGames and supplemental activitiesAnswer keys for all activities in the student workbooksComprehensive background information on prayer and related concepts

In-depth rationale and goals for the program. Easy to follow directions lesson by lesson and page by page. Provides English translations for Hebrew vocabulary items in each. Numerous games and supplemental activities.

Teacher edition for Z'Man Likro, Hebrew primer for children

These 54 lively and engaging plays (one for each weekly Torah portion) combine contemporary settings and vocabulary with stories that are faithful to the biblical text.