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Grade 1 Scripture Study | Weeks 1–4 | Teacher Guide and Answer Key
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Teach for 20–30 minutes daily. Read the passage aloud, have the learner point to the verse, model one answer, then allow independent response. Keep historical covenant instructions in context. Assess understanding rather than speed or handwriting alone.
Week 1: Hearing and loving Yahuah
Day 1: Listen to the instruction
Reading: 6:1-3. Expected response: Moses speaks to Israel about commandments and teaching children. Question: Who is speaking? Who is learning? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 2: Hear, O Israel
Reading: 6:4. Expected response: Israel is called to hear that Yahuah is one. Question: Who is called to hear? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 3: Love Yahuah
Reading: 6:5. Expected response: The command speaks of love with heart, soul, and might. Question: Name the three words used to describe love. Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 4: Keep these words
Reading: 6:6-7. Expected response: The words are to be in the heart and taught diligently to children. Question: When can families talk about the Word? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 5: Remember and review
Reading: 6:8-9. Expected response: The passage uses signs and written reminders. Question: What do reminders help us do? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Weekly assessment, 5 points: person/group (1), accurate fact/instruction (1), supporting verse (1), vocabulary meaning (1), labeled detail (1). Four or five points indicates readiness; three or fewer calls for reteaching and reassessment. For open responses, accept any text-supported answer. Record results privately.
Week 2: Remembering and teaching
Day 6: Do not forget
Reading: 6:10-12. Expected response: Moses warns Israel not to forget Yahuah after receiving good things. Question: What were the people warned not to do? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 7: Serve faithfully
Reading: 6:13-15. Expected response: The instruction calls Israel to fear and serve Yahuah. Question: Whom does the passage tell Israel to serve? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 8: Keep what is right
Reading: 6:16-19. Expected response: Israel is told to keep commandments and do what is right. Question: Find the word ‘right’ in the passage. Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 9: When children ask
Reading: 6:20-23. Expected response: A child asks about the testimonies, statutes, and judgments. Question: Who asks the question in verse 20? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 10: Tell the story accurately
Reading: 6:24-25. Expected response: The answer recalls deliverance and instruction. Question: What event is remembered? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Weekly assessment, 5 points: person/group (1), accurate fact/instruction (1), supporting verse (1), vocabulary meaning (1), labeled detail (1). Four or five points indicates readiness; three or fewer calls for reteaching and reassessment. For open responses, accept any text-supported answer. Record results privately.
Week 3: Covenant and faithfulness
Day 11: Who is addressed?
Reading: 7:6. Expected response: Moses addresses Israel as a holy people. Question: Who is being addressed? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 12: Not because of size
Reading: 7:7. Expected response: The text says Israel was not chosen for being numerous. Question: Was Israel described as the largest nation? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 13: Love and oath
Reading: 7:8. Expected response: The passage refers to love and the oath to the fathers. Question: What two reasons are mentioned? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 14: Faithful Yahuah
Reading: 7:9. Expected response: Yahuah is described as faithful and keeping covenant. Question: What word describes Yahuah? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 15: Keep the instruction
Reading: 7:10-11. Expected response: Israel is instructed to keep commandments, statutes and judgments. Question: Name one kind of instruction listed. Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Weekly assessment, 5 points: person/group (1), accurate fact/instruction (1), supporting verse (1), vocabulary meaning (1), labeled detail (1). Four or five points indicates readiness; three or fewer calls for reteaching and reassessment. For open responses, accept any text-supported answer. Record results privately.
Week 4: Wisdom in daily conduct
Day 16: Leave something for others
Reading: 19:9-10. Expected response: Israel is told to leave part of the harvest for the poor and stranger. Question: Who could gather what was left? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 17: Speak truthfully
Reading: 19:11-12. Expected response: The passage forbids stealing, lying, and false dealing. Question: Name one action the text forbids. Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 18: Treat workers fairly
Reading: 19:13. Expected response: The text forbids defrauding a neighbor and withholding wages. Question: How should a worker be treated? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 19: Consider others
Reading: 19:14-16. Expected response: The passage warns against mistreatment, unfair judgment and harmful speech. Question: Name one way to act fairly. Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Day 20: Love your neighbor
Reading: 19:17-18. Expected response: The text forbids vengeance and commands love of neighbor. Question: What command appears in verse 18? Accept answers accurately supported by the cited verse; help the child locate it. Check: learner identifies the passage, gives one accurate detail, and connects an answer to the text.
Weekly assessment, 5 points: person/group (1), accurate fact/instruction (1), supporting verse (1), vocabulary meaning (1), labeled detail (1). Four or five points indicates readiness; three or fewer calls for reteaching and reassessment. For open responses, accept any text-supported answer. Record results privately.