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Make Every Lesson Count

One Hebrew lesson a week is not enough on its own — but it becomes powerful when children practise at home in between. Kriakala gives Hebrew school students 10 minutes of daily reading practice, so they arrive at every lesson confident and ready to progress.

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The Numbers

Why Once a Week Is Not Enough

The learning gap is real — but it's easy to close with daily home practice.

50h
Typical Sunday school hours per year
900h
Hebrew school hours Israeli kids get per year
+75h
Added by 15 min/day Kriakala practice
2×
Effective weekly Hebrew learning time with app
The forgetting curve: Research shows that without reinforcement, children forget up to 80% of new material within a week. A Sunday school lesson on Monday is largely forgotten by the next Sunday. Daily 10-minute practice at home prevents this — and it's far less effort than one long weekly session.
Sample Week

A Winning Weekly Routine

Here's how a family combines Sunday Hebrew school with daily Kriakala practice.

Sunday

Hebrew School Lesson

The class introduces a new letter or concept. Child participates actively, already knowing prior material from home practice.

Monday

10 min Kriakala — Reinforce Sunday's material

Practice what was taught in class while it's still fresh. The app provides instant audio feedback that a worksheet cannot.

Tuesday

10 min Kriakala — Review earlier letters

The app automatically revisits letters learned in previous weeks to keep them sharp.

Wednesday

10 min Kriakala — Vowels (Nikud)

Once letters are solid, the app introduces vowel marks one at a time — the key step Hebrew school children often skip.

Thursday

10 min Kriakala — Syllables and short words

Combining letters and vowels into syllables, then two-syllable words. The "click" moment most parents notice first happens here.

Friday

Free choice or Shabbat-themed content

Optional: read a Hebrew blessing aloud, or review the week's Kriakala progress together.

Saturday

Rest or light review

No pressure. The five weekday sessions are enough.

Curriculum Alignment

What Kriakala Covers Between Lessons

Kriakala teaches the phonics foundation that makes Sunday school content land. Here's how it maps to typical Hebrew school curriculum.

All 22 Aleph Bet Letters

Letter name, shape, and sound — taught in order with native-speaker audio. Children can recognise every letter before class needs to introduce them.

Nikud Vowel Marks

The 8 main Nikud signs — the step most Hebrew schools teach slowly in class but children struggle to retain. Daily app practice fixes this.

Syllable Reading

Decoding consonant-vowel syllables — the bridge between knowing letters and reading words. Kriakala drills this systematically until it becomes automatic.

Prayer Book Readiness

Builds the decoding fluency needed to follow along in the Siddur — the goal of most Hebrew Sunday school programmes.

For Teachers

For Hebrew School Teachers & Coordinators

Kriakala is free to recommend, easy to explain to parents, and requires no classroom integration work on your end.

1

Share with Parents

Send the Kriakala link home in your next newsletter. The app is free, ad-free, and works on any iOS or Android device.

2

No Setup Required

Kriakala needs no teacher account, no class codes, and no integration with your existing curriculum. Parents download and start the same day.

3

Watch Progress in Class

Within 4–6 weeks, students using Kriakala daily arrive at lessons noticeably more confident with letter recognition and vowel sounds.

4

Free Worksheets Too

Print our free Hebrew worksheets as take-home activities to reinforce the app practice with pen and paper.

FAQ

Common Questions

No — and it isn't designed to. Sunday school provides community, prayer, Jewish culture, songs, and conversation that an app cannot replace. Kriakala is a home-practice tool for the phonics and letter side of Hebrew. Together the two are far more effective than either alone.
10–15 minutes a day, five days a week. That adds up to 50–75 minutes of structured Hebrew phonics practice on top of the Sunday lesson. This effectively doubles the child's weekly Hebrew learning time without requiring a long sitting — children happily do 10 minutes each evening.
Yes. Many Jewish parents in diaspora communities did not grow up reading Hebrew fluently. Kriakala is specifically designed for this situation — it teaches letters, sounds, and vowels with native-speaker audio, so a non-reading parent does not need to explain or model anything. Set up the app, sit with your child the first few times, then let them go independently.
Kriakala is designed for ages 4–7 — the pre-K, kindergarten, and first-grade window. This aligns with the earliest Hebrew school cohorts. Older children who missed foundational phonics instruction can also benefit from starting Kriakala's curriculum from the beginning — the games do not feel babyish to a 9-year-old catching up on basics.
Yes, and many do. The app is completely free with no in-app purchases and no advertising, so there is no cost barrier for any family. See our Schools page for more detail on how Hebrew schools use Kriakala.

Make Sunday School Stick All Week

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