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[ctyberg]

Hi, Does anyone have a song containing the most commonly used shorashim and their meanings?  It would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

[rroth]

I've never heard of a specific song reviewing Shorashim, but what I do with my 3rd grade class is I choose 8 of the most popular shorashim for each Perek and throughout the Perek we keep reviewing those Shorashim. By the end of the year they now 64 shorashim \- their meanings and identifying them in words perfectly due to constant practice and isolating 8 per Perek.
One of the ways of learning these 8 is that I take any song that I know and sing the 8 shorashim to that tune. Each song contains the 8 shorashim. First singing the shoresh, then its meaning and then its spelling, then the next shoresh, it's meaning... And that becomes the Perek's Shoresh song.

[yaichenbaum]

In my opinion, songs are not the best way to learn and review shorashim.  Words have to be read.  There are too many phonetically similar words (e.g. atah with an alef and with an ayin) that are mixed up if the spellings are not mastered.  Also, 64 words in a year is a nice start, but much more can be done.  The second grade in the Scranton Hebrew Day School masters over 300 words!  Please see my video (Laying the Foundation for Learning Chumash Independantly) in the video section of chinuch.org to see how we do this.

Rabbi Yaakov Aichenbaum
Scranton Hebrew Day School
yaakov@ybm.edu