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How We’re Bringing Faith to Life for Kindergartners with Discover!

Coming Fall 2024: kindergarten faith formation in Discover! Learn more here by visiting https://pages.smp.org/parish/discover. Built to accompany kindergartners in the first steps of their faith formation, our new kindergarten component is designed specifically for the energy and reading levels of …

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Bringing Scripture to Life for Children!

Steven Ellair’s presentation from RE Congress 2024

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Reclaim Reconciliation

View this resource as a blog post here.

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Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Bible passage

View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Activity Booklet pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson …

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Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Home Guide

View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Activity Booklet pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson …

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Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Spanish Family Page

View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Activity Booklet pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson …

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Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide

View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Activity Booklet pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Home Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Spanish Family Page pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day …

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Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide

View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Activity Booklet pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Home Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Spanish Family Page pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day …

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Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Activity Booklet

View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson Home Guide pdf here. View the Discover! All Saints’ Day Lesson …

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Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide

View the Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Student Book pdf here.

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Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide

View the Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Student Book pdf here.

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Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Student Book

View the Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Catechist Guide pdf here. View the Connect! All Saints’ Day Lesson Teacher Guide pdf here.

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Día de Todos los Santos

En el Día de Todos los Santos, honramos a los santos de la Iglesia, conocidos y desconocidos. Estas personas de mucha fe vivieron vidas santas y pueden ayudarnos con su ejemplo y a través de sus oraciones por nosotros.

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Psalm 62

Take a moment to pray on these words, given to us by God, and to allow Him to speak to your heart

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How to Build Biblical Literacy and engage in Scriptures with Children

Get the foundations of how to build biblical literacy with your elementary children. In this short webinar, you’ll learn 3 ways to help build this important muscle in the heart of every child you minister to. Let’s engage children in …

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Connect Set Up Form

Connect Set Up Form for eLearning

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Life Issues Sample Lesson

A sample lesson of the Life Issues from Connect: Bringing Faith to Life parish faith formation program.

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Reviewing Live Jesus in Our Hearts Curriculum ? Start here

Learning Objectives for All Courses Revelation and the Old Testament Jesus Christ and The New Testament The Paschal Mystery and the Gospels The Church Foundations and Mission Sacraments and God's Grace Morality and God's Love Teacher Resources Primary Source Correlations …

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Using Scripture

There was a time when many Catholics felt discouraged from reading Sacred Scripture for fear of misinterpreting it. Today, the Church encourages regular use of the Bible and even serious study of it among all Catholics. Scripture plays a critical …

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Helping Young Adolescents Pay Attention

Catechists working with young adolescents face the challenge of capturing and keeping their students’ attention during sessions. A wandering mind and a short attention span is natural during adolescence. In addition, some students have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention …

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Effective Group Management

Effective group management is grounded in positive relationships of mutual respect between teachers and students and among students. Viewing young people in a positive light requires dispelling stereotypes that portray them as uncontrollable, disrespectful, and rude. When classes for students …

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Effective Storytelling

Stories are often the best way to capture and convey the power of deep truths and significant relationships. Consider how people are enamored when someone tells the story of meeting and falling in love with their spouse or recalls the …

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Active Learning and Faith Formation

Experience is the best teacher. Once you learn to ride a bike, you never forget—not because you read about it, but because you did it. It is difficult to forget something learned through experience. People tend to learn least through …

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Developmental Characteristics of Young Adolescents

Adolescence is a critical time of identity formation. With the onset of puberty comes an explosion of growth of many kinds: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, moral, and spiritual. Understanding the nature and scope of adolescent development and responding appropriately requires …

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Using Scripture

There was a time when many Catholics felt discouraged from reading Sacred Scripture for fear of misinterpreting it. Today, the Church encourages regular use of the Bible and even serious study of it among all Catholics. Scripture plays a critical …

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Helping Young Adolescents Pay Attention

Teachers working with young adolescents face the challenge of capturing and keeping their students’ attention during sessions. A wandering mind and a short attention span is natural during adolescence. In addition, some students have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention …

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Effective Group Management

Effective group management is grounded in positive relationships of mutual respect between teachers and students and among students. Viewing young people in a positive light requires dispelling stereotypes that portray them as uncontrollable, disrespectful, and rude. When classes for students …

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Effective Storytelling

Stories are often the best way to capture and convey the power of deep truths and significant relationships. Consider how people are enamored when someone tells the story of meeting and falling in love with their spouse or recalls the …

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Active Learning and Faith Formation

Experience is the best teacher. Once you learn to ride a bike, you never forget—not because you read about it, but because you did it. It is difficult to forget something learned through experience. People tend to learn least through …

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Developmental Characteristics of Young Adolescents

Adolescence is a critical time of identity formation. With the onset of puberty comes an explosion of growth of many kinds: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, moral, and spiritual. Understanding the nature and scope of adolescent development and responding appropriately requires …

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Active Learning in Religious Education and Faith Formation for Middle School Tweens and Young People

Experience is the best teacher. Once you learn to ride a bike, you never forget—not because you read about it, but because you did it. It is difficult to forget something learned through experience. People tend to learn least through …

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Connect! Bringing Faith to Life School Scope & Sequence

We'll show you how each year looks using Connect. Looking for more resources as you review? View More Resources

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Connect! Bringing Faith to Life Scope & Sequence for Parish

We'll show you how each year looks when you use Connect. Looking for more resources as you review? View More Resources

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Reviewing Connect for your School? Start here!

On this page, we've put everything that you might need as you review Connect! Bringing Faith to Life. Questions? Call us at 1-800-533-8095. Access your sample kit Looking to share the samplers with your staff and co-workers? We've pulled all …

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Reviewing Connect for your parish? Start here!

On this page, we've put everything that you might need as you review Connect! Bringing Faith to Life. Questions? Call us at 1-800-533-8095. Access your sample kit Looking to share the samplers with parents or committees? We've pulled all of …

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Reaching the Hearts of Junior High Youth: Webinar Recording

Watch the full recording of our webinar, Reaching the Hearts of Junior High Youth, and learn more about how Connect! Bringing Faith to Life can make an impact on the young people you serve today!

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The ABCs of Biblical Literacy

How do you build biblical literacy? It's as simple as the ABCs! If you love the idea of getting young people into Scripture, our programs and curricula for Elementary and Middle School are absolutely rooted in Scripture! Look at the …

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Building Biblical Literacy, as a family!

This helpful resource has ideas on how to explore The Catholic Children's Bible and build biblical literacy as a family!

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Discover Parent Letter

This editable letter allows you to quickly let parents know how Discover Digital eLearning lessons work, how to login, and their children's login information.

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How to Upload Students

Use these instructions for students who have never used our Digital eLearning platform before. If you have a combination of new and returning students, follow these instructions for uploading new students, then update/move your returning students following the instructions found …

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How to Move Existing Students to Next Grade Level

Use these instructions if you have students who used our Digital eLearning platform before, and now need to move to a new section, grade, or course. Example situations: - Child previously used Discover! digital eLearning for 3rd grade, and is …

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Creating a summer program with The Catholic Children's Bible

One of the most frequent questions we've been asked recently is "How do we bring families back to Mass?" One idea is to create a summer family program! Creating a summer family program is a fun and rewarding way to …