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Welcome to the Zekelman Standards resource library, where you can find a wealth of curriculum materials and resources to help you bring Chumash skills to life in your classroom.

Use the filters on the left to narrow down what you are looking for, by standard as well as by resource category. To view these same resources alongside the standards themselves, navigate through Browse Standards.

This growing list of resource types will help you unpack the standards, and provides a wealth of ideas, guidelines and classroom-ready activities to help you facilitate success for each student. You can view samples of the various resource types by downloading this booklet.

Click here to view a description of each resource category.
  • Assessments This resource provides an array of sample assessment questions and styles for each standard. These assessment questions can be used to build your own assessments, or classroom activities and worksheets.
  • Supplements These resources are free of charge and include background information to aid teachers in understanding each standard, including grammar rules, sample word lists, and more.
  • Tools for Torah These activities culled from the acclaimed workbook series provide ready to use templates as well as ideas that can be adapted for practicing select standards in the classroom.
  • Classroom Activities This resource provides clear guidelines to go beyond worksheets in bringing the Chumash skills to life, including games, templates, graphic organizers, and other suggestions for teaching methods to use in your classroom.
  • Curriculum Maps Now you can search for your Parsha and Perek and find suggested Chumash skills to focus on in each unit, helping you plan your own curriculum and match skills to content.
  • Standards for Print You can download and print the complete Zekelman Standards for Chumash or choose to print your own grade only. You can also choose to narrow down your view to tables only and find a change log to help you update from previous editions.
  • Flashcards Designed in full color with child-friendly graphics, these flashcards will aid your students in reviewing the pronouns, parts of speech and verb forms, making Dikduk fun and easy!
  • Posters Print these colorful and child-friendly visual aids listing pronouns, parts of speech and verb forms to make Dikduk easy! You can download each file in poster size for your classroom wall, or binder size for each student.
  • Booklets Here you can find more extensive resources to aid you and your school in implementing various areas of the standards, including: a school deployment guide, beta version of standards for Talmud, and an introductory booklet for language skills that can be used in the classroom or for teacher training.
  • Veshinantam Activities Finally – complete, classroom-ready activities to bring Chumash learning to life! These structures engage higher order thinking and various learning styles through creative activities for each skill. Each comes with a teacher’s guide, templates and handouts, sample student work, and differentiated versions for various grades and levels of ability. 

 

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Includes all assessment questions for standard 1

Includes all assessment questions for standard 3

Includes all assessment questions for standard 4