Bemaalot Hakriah 2
Book for teaching the Nekudot and reading stories
+ Exercises book
Workbook to learn different reading skills
To whom is it directed?
Third year of preschool - five years old
Lenght of the book:
240 pages.
Theme of the book:
Acquiring and practicing of vowels, accepted by all Talmud Toras and Beis Yakovs.
Purpose of the book:
To teach the children the vowels in a profound and methodical fashion and to achieve a precise and fluid reading.
Caracteristics:
Bemaalot bet teaches how to learn the vowels gradually and systematic in a clear fashion which will lead the child to a precise reading from the very beginning. It is recommended to use this book with its workbook together as it has practical exercises for use of the vowels, putting emphasis on phonology and different ways as how to achieve a fluid and correct reading. It includes very clear instructions for teachers and parents to obtain maximum benefits from the material.
Content:
- It should be very clear that the vowels can’t be taught till the children know all the letters and their sounds perfectly. Included in the beginning of the book are exercises to reinforce and memorize the letters and their sounds (p. 19-48)
- The teaching of the vowels is done in a gradual fashion:
The teaching of the vowels contains several steps (the following is a disclosure of the book pages with the letter alef, same instructions are repeated with all the other letters):
- Recognizing the symbol of the shown vowels (p. 51).
- Learning the sound of the shown vowels (p. 52-53).
- Reading of the open syllables of the shown vowels (p. 54-57).
- Reading the closed syllables of the shown vowels (p. 58-59).
- Reading of words which stress the shown vowels (p. 60).
- Reading without sound of the shown vowels (this step is essential for the child to read the syllables correctly and doesn’t guess the word with his first impression) (p. 61).
- To practice how to read the shown vowels in combination with the vowels taught before ( Kametz not being included ).
- Reading of complete words with stressing the taught vowels ( Kametz not being included )
- Reading of words which don’t make sense ( Kametz not being included ).
- Reading of the taught vowels (62-63).
- Reading short stories to practice the taught vowels ( Kametz not being included ).
- To teach the vowels, a vast number of exercises have been included in a way where the material gets acquired by the children in an orderly and structured form.
- To resume, there is a section of “the family of the vowels” to emphasize the ones who have a similar sound (p. 187-192).
- After teaching the vowels, worksheets are included to enrich their learning (p. 193-207).
- At the end of the book there are short stories followed by simple comprehension activities (p. 208-224).
- Memory cards with letters and vowels: to be used for games and practice: can be used for evaluation, diagnosis and for a memory game, writing words, letter correspondence and more ( p. 225-240 ).
This book is accompanied by its workbook which is bought separately. It has 150 pages with practical exercises to stress the vowels in the following way: identifying the vowels, developing the phonological awareness, reading syllables, exercises in which the corresponding vowels have to be put according to what the child hears, identifying similar words (with the purpose to train the eye to capture the details of the word on a global scale), etc.
This book comes with its teacher guide in Hebrew and Spanish.
Exercises book
Workbook to learn different reading skills
