Hebrew

Check Student Progress in Decoding with Hebrew Reading Assessment

How well are your students decoding? You can help them brush up on their Hebrew skills while tracking their progress in decoding with the Hebrew Reading Assessment by Lesley Litman. 

How to Choose Hebrew Materials to Meet Your Goals

You're preparing for next year's classes and wondering what Hebrew materials will work best with your program. Let us help you with our 'How to Choose Hebrew' chart. We've gathered together some organizing questions to help you think through your goals for your Hebrew program, and provided some ideas for you based on your answers to these questions.  The questions are organized by level, to help you think about;

Using Kol Yisrael to Help Your Students Explore Hebrew through Prayer

It will soon be time to start planning next year's classes and we want to remind you of the great resources available to help your students explore Hebrew through prayer from the Kol Yisrael series. 

Share Free Hebrew Practice Apps and Games with Students and Their Families

Do you need to learn mah nishtanah for Passover? Are you looking to connect your child with more Hebrew practice? Would you like to learn Hebrew through games and apps with your family? You can do it all for free with Behrman House.  Be Passover ready with this free mah nishtanah reading aid. You can learn or practice the four questions while reading along and hear the questions in different dialects.

Why Derech Binah is So Popular after All These Years

Derech Binah turns 30 this year and remains a favorite in Jewish classrooms. Find out why this smart little primer by Ruby Strauss is still loved by teachers and students nationwide.  Teachers say they find Derech Binah clear and easy to use. Look-alike letters are taught together which addresses visual discrimination issues up front. Hebrew letters are also presented in isolation, rather than in whole words, which many students find reassuring. 

OLC Talk: What Educators are Saying

For two years the Online Learning Center has been providing extra Hebrew practice to over 11,000 students and 2,000 teachers and educators. Hear why educators are finding it useful.   Marla Wolf, Director of the religious school at Anshe Chesed Fairmount Temple, is using Ready, Set...Go Alef Bet! with the second graders because it provides a great set of tools to prepare them for third grade. 

Free App Offers New Ways to Practice Hebrew with Kol Yisrael

This free game and practice app lets students hear, practice, and record eight blessings and prayers from Kol Yisrael volumes 1, 2 and 3 on iPad.

Resources to Help Plan Your Curriculum

Planning Curriculum for Next Fall? We Have Resources to Help. Time flies by. Even as students and teachers are immersed right now in the most productive part of the school year, soon it will be time to plan for the fall. We want to make sure you have tools at your fingertips when you want to begin.

New Kol Yisrael Funbook Offers More Options for Hebrew Practice

The new Kol Yisrael Funbook is now available! Recommended for grades 4-6. This new workbook, by Dina Maiben, provides supplemental activities in a lively 80-page format that help students build fluency in reading and develop their understanding of the meaning of 26 prayers and blessings. Matched to specific lessons in the Kol Yisrael series, these exercises can also be used in conjunction with prayer materials from other series, or with your own materials.

Practice and Record Hebrew Prayer on This Free App for iPad

This free game and practice app lets students hear, practice, and record eight blessings and prayers from Kol Yisrael volumes 1, 2 and 3 on iPad. Batya's Bubbles and Blessings supports your use of the Kol Yisrael Hebrew program to practice prayer reading, skills, and to review selected prayers from all three volumes of Kol Yisrael. 

Accuracy with Speed is the Challenge in this Online Hebrew Letter Recognition Game by Joel Hoffman

Dr Joel Hoffman, chief translator of the ten-volume series My People's Prayer Book, thinks a lot about how best to help students learn Hebrew. He has created an online Hebrew letter recognition game that pits students against their own best times to help them focus on accuracy fast. We're delighted to partner with Dr. Hoffman to make his Hebrew Letter Game available free as part of our growing array of digital games and exercises for students at all levels of Hebrew reading ability.

Now Students Can Earn Badges for their Online Hebrew Work

We've added another cool tool for students to the Online Learning Center Students now will be able to track their progress by earning and collecting new Hebrew and Bible badges. As students complete each lesson in Ready, Set… Go Alef Bet, Alef Bet Quest, and Kol Yisrael Volumes 1-3, as well each of the five elements of the Lamed Vavnik Quest in The Explorers Bible, they will earn a new badge, which will become aprt of their permanent record in the OLC.

New Hampshire Educator Finds OLC Engages Students and Dispels Parent Concerns about Hebrew Homework

Educative Director, Maggie Duford, now serving her second year with Upper Valley Jewish Community in Hanover, New Hampshire, has introduced the Online Learning Center (OLC) into her program and reports positive responses from both students and parents.

Help Students Sharpen Hebrew Skills with Online Practice and Recording

Now is the perfect time to help students refresh their Hebrew skills. We have new tools that can help you determine what help students need and also help you spend more class time teaching, and spending more quality time with your students.

Give Your Students a Quick Link to FREE Hebrew Practice

The school year is underway and you have just eight weeks before the big Thanksgiving/Hanukkah holiday weekend. How would you like to give your students and families a quick link they can use to get access to free online practice reading Hebrew? Would you like them to learn how to order ice cream, count, or say please and thank you in Hebrew? It's easy and free at behrmanhouse.com/students. No sign up required.

Free Online Practice for Reconstructionist Prayers Coming This Fall

Students studying the Reconstructionist  liturgy will soon be able to practice these prayers online thanks to a collaboration between Behrman House and the Jewish Reconstructionist movement. 

Now Students Can Learn Hebrew Prayers in Any Order and at Their Own Pace with Kol Yisrael Complete

Some educators choose the Kol Yisrael Hebrew curriculum for its strong pedagogy that teaches Hebrew prayer using roots, cultural words, and a choice of Israeli or American accents. Some choose Kol Yisrael in order to give students the benefits of extra practice from any location through its matching online exercises and video games in the Online Learning Center that automatically track student progress. And some even choose Kol Yisrael for its lively style and energetic characters--because it's fun.

Create More Time to Foster Deeper Relationships Among Students

Do you wish you had more TIME with your students?  You can't change the calendar or stop the clock, but you CAN choose learning materials that make the most of every minute you have with your students.

Prepare Young Children for Hebrew Learning with a Fun “Pre-Alef” Class

Offering early childhood Hebrew classes prepares students for Hebrew learning and entices families to start their children’s Jewish education earlier.  Research has shown that younger minds are more apt to learn and absorb a new language, plus the curiosity of a young child contributes to better language learning.  In the congregational school setting, teaching Hebrew at the “pre-primer” level (or even earlier) is also a great way to welcome families with younger

Enhance Your Prayer Curriculum with Visual Tefillah

Engage students in prayer with Visual Tefillah, a series of beautiful and thought-provoking PowerPoint slideshows to supplement Kol Yisrael and Hineni. Prayers are broken down line-by-line with text in Hebrew and English alongside dramatic photographs illustrating the meaning/intention of the words.

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