Shalom Ivrit Book 1

Your students can already decode Hebrew words. Now they're ready to learn to read and understand modern Hebrew using Shalom Ivrit 1!

With the added plus of the Shalom Ivrit Prayer Companion, they will also learn to participate in prayer with understanding and reading fluency.

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:

1. Shalom
2. Where Is the Honey?
3. In the Sukkah
4. Family
5. In the Classroom
6. Shabbat Shalom
7. Hanukkah
8. Dinah Is Happy
9. Tu B'Shevat
10. A Beautiful World
11. Today Is Purim
12. The (Passover) Seder
13. The Blue and White Flag
14. Every Year

ABOUT THE SERIES:
Shalom Ivrit is a graded, sequential curriculum. Its goal is to teach students to read and comprehend modern Hebrew language. It keeps grammar rules to a minimum, and presents them clearly and simply, through the language experience itself. At the earliest levels, the story lines are short and rhythmic. Vocabulary is controlled, useful for every day, and often accompanied by pictorial representations.

Periodic "Checkpoints" reinforce and review students' mastery of vocabulary, reading comprehension, and language skills. Full-color illustrations and photographs ground the language in real-life experience. Each level is built on a central theme: Shalom Ivrit 1 on holidays; Shalom Ivrit 2 on Jewish values; and Shalom Ivrit 3 on the daily life of young teens. Ideal for schools with at least 1½ hours of Hebrew instructional time per week.

TEACHER SUPPORT MATERIALS:
Teacher's Edition, Word Cards, and a Prayer Companion available for each level of the series. Music CD also available for Shalom Ivrit 1.