Conquering the Challenge of Hebrew Decoding

Viewed
2
Saved
0
Guide
Hebrew
3 - 5
6 - 7

No matter your curriculum or textbook, this resource offers strategies for addressing 10 common challenges that Hebrew students face when learning the AlefBet and/or prayer decoding. Each of the teaching strategies are accompanied by explanations of why the research tells us they work. Appendix A summarizes 12 key learnings from hands-on experiments by Jewish educators and Appendix C offers a very helpful newly uncovered strategy called "Sound BEFORE Print."

View Resources
icon Save to library
Share

The ten challenges addressed are:

  • Hebrew letters
  • Vowel signs
  • Similar looking letter mix-ups
  • Siddur decoding
  • Torah decoding/chanting
  • Recitation vs decoding
  • Slow and laborious decoding
  • "Fossilized errors"
  • Middle-of-word mistakes
  • Getting "lost" in the siddur

Details

Setting

  • After School and Beyond
  • Congregational Learning

  • This resource is an Educator Contributed resource and is the intellectual property of the contributor.
  • --
  • If you believe this resource to be inappropriate in any way, please email us at educator@jewishedproject.org.

Discover more

Hebrew Professional Dev
Professional Development Ideas and Tools for Hebrew Teachers

Adaptable professional development suggestions for those interested in a sound-to-print approach to Hebrew learning.

NM
Nachama Moskowitz
2
0
J JEP
Project-Based, Choice-Based Learning: J-JEP

J-JEP is a multi-denominational collaboration between Beth Shalom, a traditional Conservative congregation, and Rodef Shalom, a Classical Reform congregation. The learning in J-JEP reflects the belief that no two households are the same.

171
4
Seven Weeks of Seven Days
Hebrew Through Holidays: Omer Vocabulary Review (Part 9 of 10)

This activity is part of a series of 10 holiday-centered activities intended for students in grades K-4 that are learning the Hebrew.

33
1