Recall the Hebrew alphabet faster and with a smile

Note from the Author Using alliterative stories and pictures as memory aids, Storybook Hebrew is designed to reinforce phonemic awareness for native English speakers learning the alef bet. Read more about this at www.storybookhebrew.com. Print the two-page story spreads in this pdf to help an English speaking child learn the differences among two groups of visually similar alef bet while introducing him or her to a right to left format. One story is about Koof, Pay,and Fay numbered pages 1 and 2; another includes Bet, Vet, Kaf and Chaf numbered pages 3 and 4. The first page of each story is on the right, the second page on the left. You can print this pdf to arrange the pages in this format for reading and reviewing. Each story contains some Englishbrew, a mixture of Hebrew letters in English words little puzzles to make the stories more fun and phonemically instructive. I use the word Chanukah in Storybook Hebrew for the Chaf and Chet sound even though we Americans dont normally pronounce it with its throat-clearing beginning sound. If you dont know the alef bet, when you share Storybook Hebrew stories with a child soon both of you will easily remember letter names and sounds. Printed and Ebook Formats Storybook Hebrew coloring books with exercises as well as a one letter at a time format are available through lulu.com. You can buy all the letter and vowel stories in printed form at Lulu. There are 8 letter stories and 7 vowel stories. Storybook Hebrew ebooks which also include letter and vowel stories as well as one letter at a time options can be purchased through the Amazon Kindle Store. Also available from Amazon is my Picturing English ebook series designed to help older children and adults master the sounds and spelling of the English alphabet through pictures and stories. Hope you have fun with these. Doris Baker

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STORYBOOK

Storybook Hebrew
Stories & Activities for Learning Letters and Sounds

Storybook Hebrew stories and coloring books make the Hebrew alphabet come alive. Short stories, repeated storytelling and hands-on activities clarify differences among similar letters. Children create a book of their own pictures. Holiday traditions, Jewish values, heritage Hebrew words, and block letter practice are woven into stories and activities. Story themes encourage discussion of values. Holiday Hebrew Coloring Book: 8 Hebrew Letters in Jewish Holidays is an 8-letter activity book introducing alefbet sounds in holidays. Includes Storybook Hebrew alphabet stories. 36 pages B&W inside Storybook Hebrew Coloring Book 1: Introducing the Hebrew Alphabet is an activity book with stories for each alefbet one letter at a time. Final letters not included. 112 pages B&W inside Storybook Hebrew Coloring Book 2: Alphabet Review & Final Letters is an activity book with alphabet stories that reinforce differences among similar letters. Introduces final letters. 80 pages B&W inside Storybook Hebrew Coloring Book 3: Vowels in the Air includes activities with stories for many Hebrew vowels as well as syllable practice. 44 pages B&W inside Storybook Hebrew Coloring Book 4: Alphabet Review Plus Final Letters and Vowels is an activity storybook bringing vowels, final letters and alphabet review together in one book. A combination of coloring books 2 and 3. 112 pages B&W inside Storybook Hebrew: Alphabet and Vowel Stories for Learning Letters and Sounds includes the stories about letters and vowels, heritage words in Hebrew and English, and traceable block Hebrew letters in a full color book. 28 pages Full color

About the Author: Doris Baker was inspired to produce Storybook Hebrew because she taught herself the Hebrew alphabet in a few days by telling herself stories to aid recall. In creating Storybook Hebrew, she applied her skills as a storyteller, editor, and artist. Her experience gained through International Dyslexia Association courses, tutoring students privately and in ESL classrooms, and working with a religious school helped her sculpt and evaluate Storybook Hebrew Copyright 2011-14 by Doris Baker All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior consent of the author. Links to Amazon ebooks and printed coloring books at: www.storybookhebrew.com Email contact: dorisbaker9@gmail.com

Two Stories in this Pdf Be Kind and Play Fair

Chanukah Candy Cant Buy a Valentine

Match to Hebrew: Lulav

Shabbat

Beracha

Kippah

Chanukah candy gets stuck in Chafs throat.

AF

..

AF

Kaf coughs out a candy coin.

really

Bet is so proud of winning Vets candy, she spins her gelt

off.

to show

Kaf stands near the andy coin watching with his mouth
hahahahaha hahahahaha

open. Suddenly, the coin twirls into Kafs mouth, and he coughs.

Chaf, watching Kaf, cant stop laughing.

the

When Kaf coughs,

anukah gelt flies into Chafs mouth and gets stuck going down.

Thats why Chaf sounds like hes choking on a grape, but its

anukah andy caught in his throat.

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anukah andy ant uy a
Bet bounces her ball on the balance beam.

alentine

ET ET

Vet wants a valentine

and drops his volleyball.

be his

et likes Bet and wants her to be his

alentine.

But Vet

is scared Bet will laugh at him, so he says, When I run for Vice

President, will you vote for me?

Bet who is a ballerina and a basketball star says, Dont et on it. You cant even bounce a ball on the balance beam.

Vet says, I et my Chanukah gelt I can if youll be my alentine.

But poor Vet drops his volleyball, so Bet wins his candy. Still hoping she will

alentine, Vet vows: Im going to be President one day. Youll see.

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Match to Hebrew: Pesach

Kiddush Shofar

He

.. .

Pay spends a pocketful of pennies, nickels and dimes at the

candy store and buys two chocolate-covered

eppermint atties.

puts a piece of candy in his pocket and pops the other into his mouth. Fay , Pays twin, has no candy, and fusses at Pay, No fair,
you dont share! She sticks her finger in her empty mouth. When Pay eats his other

eppermint attie, he makes ay yells.

Fay even madder. Pay pulls out a peanut from his pocket
and offers it to

ay to keep the peace.

Pay says. From now on, Ill split any

I hope you get fat from all that candy, Please forgive me,

andy in my pocket with you, he promises while secretly planning

to put it in his mouth instead. How do you settle a fight peacefully? And how do you

eel

about a friend who makes promises he doesnt keep or someone who calls you names?

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ind and lay
AY

air

Fay fusses and sticks her finger in her empty mouth.

AY OOF

Pay puts a chocolate-covered peppermint pattie in his mouth.

Koof coughs out his long, cracked tooth and shares coins.

K
gives some

oof trips and

cracks his tooth. coins.

When he

coughs, his long kind

cracked tooth comes out. Koof puts it under his pillow,

and the tooth fairy leaves him The next day

oof

coins to his pal Pay. Pay is pleased because now he has

plenty of money to buy candy.

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