Morah Shoshanah's Online Learning Tree
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K-8 General & Judaic studies
Hebrew for all ages
About Morah Shoshanah
Known to thousands of students and parents simply as Morah Shoshanah, Susie Meyersdorf is a creative, talented and experienced educator with 30 years' experience.
Morah Shoshanah is an English-Hebrew bilingual teacher with K-8 New Jersey certification, Orton-Gillingham certification, a Master’s degree in Educational Leadership and a K-12 principal certification CE in New Jersey. A native New Yorker, she earned her BA at Brooklyn College, her MAEdL at Thomas Edison State College and attended Michlalah Jerusalem College for Women in Israel.
Her teaching range is vast with an expertise in teaching elementary school aged-children a dual Judaic-General Studies curriculum along with Modern Hebrew and Chumash and Navi for all ages. She is an outstanding master educator; her middot tovot and playful disposition draw students to her. In addition, Morah Shoshanah has also taught adult education classes for over two decades.
Morah Shoshanah is soft-spoken, has lots of patience and loves teaching through games and humor. She is beloved by students and parents alike. So whether it is Math, English Language Arts, Hebrew, Kriah or Limudei Kodesh, your child – or any adult wishing to learn Hebrew and Tanach– does not have to miss out on learning whether due to the pandemic or any other reason.
In this new age, Morah Shoshanah has brought her skills from the classroom to the digital realm, effectively teaching a new generation of students via remote learning.
Academic achievement is not remote, but it can be achieved remotely. And with Morah Shoshanah, it can be done successfully.
Reading & Writing
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Concepts about print
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Sight words and spelling
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Phonemic awareness – letter sounds
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ABC letter identification and sound recognition
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Blending, segmenting, decoding, encoding – word families and rhyming
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Classroom skills - notetaking
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Writing skills and grammar - descriptive, narrative, persuasive, creative, editing
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Reading comprehension – fiction, non-fiction, poetry, vocabulary
Math
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Number sense
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Operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
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Factors and multiples
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Measurement – area and perimeter, angles
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Fractions and decimals
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Algebraic thinking – solving for unknown variables
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Word problems – relevant information, knowing which operation to use
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Everyday math
Hebrew Language
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Alef-bet/bais letter and vowel identification and sound recognition
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Blending, segmenting, decoding, encoding
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Vocabulary units for Tanach and Modern Hebrew
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Ivrit bi’Ivrit or translation
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Dikduk - Hebrew grammar and its applications for comprehension
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Writing skills - composition applying diduk for precise expression
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Hebrew conversation
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Reading comprehension
Chumash & Navi
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100 basic words
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Shorashim, word roots
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Comprehension of plain meaning of text
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Background of the commentators – their settings and styles
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Rashi and other commentaries
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Understanding historical time frames as they relate to the texts of Chumash and Navi
