S'fatai Tiftah: Siddur Mastery & Meaning Volume 3

Grades: 5-6     S’fatai Tiftah: Mastery & Meaning is a three-volume series designed to teach prayer mastery and meaning. The three volumes take students though the major sections of a Shabbat morning service—from Barekhu through the concluding prayers.

S’fatai Tiftah has been designed to teach prayer mastery and meaning and to enable students to successfully achieve four major goals:

• to perform basic prayers.
• to develop a generalized understanding.
• to explore personal meaning.
• to understand how Hebrew is constructed.

Each prayer has:

• An introduction that sets the prayer’s theme and locates it in the service.
• A drill text and translation that is a source for the unit.
• Key roots that build a language connection.
• Practice in sounding out key words and phrases to help build fluency.
• The opportunity to translate a short portion of the prayer that builds a further language connection.
• A story that offers an insight into the prayer’s spiritual meaning.

Each volume is supported by a collection of materials.

• Home Workbook allows students to drill and reinforce class at home with a website that support the Home Workbook.
• Classroom Workbook filled with additional activities and drill opportunities.
• Page-for-page Teacher’s Guide with insights, background, and activities.
• Vocabulary Posters and Flashcards to work with the language elements in this curriculum.

S’fatai Tiftah, Volume 3 covers:

1. Beginning the Torah Service
2. Opening the Ark
3. Taking the Torah Out of the Ark
4. Torah Blessings
5. Mi She-Berakh
6. Haftarah Blessing
7. Ashrei
8. Returning the Torah to the Ark
9. Ein K’Eloheinu
10. Aleinu
11. Kaddish
12. Adon Olam
13. Havdallah