As students head back to school, help them break through the Hebrew reading summer slide with a variety of tools for students of all ages and levels.
Free online resources
The Online Learning Center offers free digital resources for students, including Hebrew primer level and prayer practice, as well a fast-paced letter game. You can direct students to access these tools by clicking on the yellow toolbar in the OLC or send home direct links to the tools.
There's also a free app that allows students to play, listen, and record from Kol Yisrael volumes 1, 2, and 3 through an interactive game. Batya's Bubbles and Blessings includes 12 Hebrew blessings and prayers, and includes an updated Hebrew/English main menu.
Batya's Bubbles & Blessings supports your use of the Kol Yisrael Hebrew program to practice prayer reading, skills, and to review the prayers from all three volumes of Kol Yisrael.
Learners can record themselves while reading, chanting, or singing the prayers and blessings, and have the option to email the recordings to anyone. The recorded files can even be played on iTunes.
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For students who need to get up to speed
The Back-to-School Hebrew Reading Refresher can be used for the first few weeks of school to:
- Review Hebrew letters and words
- Drill Hebrew reading and remediate reading problems
- Practice writing skills
- Enrich cultural concepts
- Serve as a bridge between a primer and Book 1 of any Hebrew series
For students who can decode
It's smart to keep decoding skills sharp as students move from their regular Hebrew program into a bnei mitzvah program.
Developed in conjunction with the Jewish Journey Project, Shalom Hebrew OLC App is an interactive digital primer packed with engaging features, interactive reading exercises that can be recorded and reviewed by educators, and more than a dozen games. Link it to student accounts in our Online Learning Center and let them choose where they wish to practice—and on which device—while their progress and recordings are saved centrally.
Designed as a universal app accessible from any PC or Mac desktop; laptop; tablet; or smartphone, Shalom Hebrew OLC App works as a companion to all of the Shalom Uvrachah materials, or can be used as a Hebrew learning tool on its own.
Use the Ten-Minute Hebrew Readers for skill development at the beginning of any class. Each 10-minute reading "workout" helps students exercise their reading muscles - they'll play soccer, lift weights, and run relay races - without ever leaving their room. Each book contains 22 amusing lessons to:
- Isolate and remediate letter discrimination problems
- Encourage prayer reading fluency
- Develop rhythmic reading
To assess new or returning students
Use the Hebrew Reading Assessment to diagnose specific student challenges with decoding at every level.
