Greek for Children Primer A Streaming Video & Audio

Greek for Children is a program designed to introduce elementary students to Koine {koy-nay} biblical Greek encouraging proficiency through classical methodologies like chants, grammar, and vocabulary. This is not a modern, spoken Greek course. Greek for Children is a user-friendly option for parents with no previous Greek experience. Instruction is clearly delivered in bite-size pieces, reinforced, and reviewed. There will be 3 levels in the future - A, B, and C.

Primer A Student Worktext covers:

• the Greek alphabet
• verbs - present, imperfect, future tenses, "being"
• nouns – 1^st and 2^nd declension; accusative, dative, and genitive cases
• adjectives - 1^st and 2^nd declension, sentence patterns, and prepositions

There are 33 lessons, 1 per week, (29 chapter lessons and 4 introductory lessons on the Greek alphabet). Although the alphabet instruction is thorough, the use of the Greek Alphabet Code Cracker by the same publisher is recommended for additional review and repetition.

Each chapter lesson starts with a Memory Page that includes a Bible verse written in Greek with pronunciation and translation, chants, and vocabulary review. The Grammar Page provides instruction and is followed by the Worksheet Page that includes translation, chants, grammar, and derivatives before ending the chapter with a Quiz Page that includes the same. By the way, these "Pages" are usually multiple pages long. Every fourth chapter is review. Although not labeled as appendices, there are reference charts (parts of speech), and glossaries (by chapter and by alphabet) in the back of the text.

The Teacher’s Edition provides all student pages (full size) with answers filled in plus teaching tips and explanations. Here is a sample sequence for teaching a chapter over 5 days.

What makes this course so easy on the parent/teacher is the professionally done video and audio instruction. Available via Online Streaming or as DVDs (five of them, with a Chant CD to remember grammar rules) instruction is lesson by lesson through the course. The format is simple: instructor explaining, using a whiteboard for greater illustration.

To see differences between the older 2017 edition and the new 2025 revised edition, click here. Much of the vocabulary is different in preparation for levels B and C. The text has been expanded to provide more practice. Each chapter now includes at least 10 sentences to translate. Chapter verses have more depth and there are additional grammar exercises.