Developed by Torah For Children, Applied Torah is a learning system of Torah instruction in which core Kodesh skills are explicitly scaffolded, visually organized, and systematically applied into live text. Learning is meaningful and relevant, leading to independent mastery.

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The Applied Torah Learning System currently encompasses Kriah, Chumash and Gemara with a growing list of titles.

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The Children's Chumash is a comprehensive Chumash including language decoding (both Shorashim and Dikduk), comprehension and review applied into the live Chumash text. There are many visual tools incorporated into the instructional design and not just decorative. There is also careful sensitivity to developing the students Fear of Heaven and character through the content. 

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Seder Kriah is a 5-stage Kriah decoding system. Contemporary reading methods are embedded and applied into actual kriah pages. In Seder Kriah, Kriah pages are scaffolded from the individual components of letters/vowels to multisyllable words with complex rules. The Kriah pages for each Kriah skill set begins with guided skill instruction moving to independent mastery.

The Children’s Gemara series is comprised of a Visual Introduction to Gemara outlining the Mesorah and system of Gemara and an actual Gemara text on Perek Tefillas Hashachar from Masechta Berachos.

 

The Children’s Gemara on Tefillas Hashachar systematically shows how to decode Gemara from a text. Core Gemara Aramaic language skills, decoding, key words and comprehension skills are applied using advanced visual organization tools in live text.

 

We hope to produce more volumes of these core Kodesh learning subjects in the near future B’Ezras Hashem. om asechta

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Rabbi Yehuda Adelist M.S. Ed SpEd

Director, Torah For Children