Teacher Guide

1. Curriculum alignment and database structure

The project follows Lexical Band II of the Israeli Ministry of Education English curriculum. I preserved the official division between Core I and Core II: Core I contains 1,090 learning records and Core II contains 1,086, for a total of 2,176 records.

Each core is divided into 20 balanced teaching groups. Groups 01–20 belong to Core I and Groups 21–40 belong to Core II. The group numbers are internal lesson-sized units; they do not create new curriculum levels and they do not move records across the official core boundary.

2. Official curriculum source

The Ministry’s Lexical Band II document remains the curriculum authority. The project maintains private, versioned source workbooks to build and audit the activities, including documented translations, examples and record-level sense fields. Those project workbooks are not public files and are not available for download or direct access.

Source authority: the Israeli Ministry of Education. The private project workbooks are internal data files, not replacements for the official document. They are not licensed for direct access, extraction or reuse. Editorial additions remain traceable internally to their record and source evidence.

The project database displayed through the activities is not a mechanical copy of a vocabulary list. It has undergone documented linguistic and pedagogical proofreading and enhancement: consistency review, record-level sense distinctions, adapted translations and explanations, written and edited examples, grammatical classification, word-family mapping, learning-group selection and arrangement, sequencing and quality control. Those original expressive, editorial and organizational elements are protected by copyright under applicable law. No ownership is claimed over raw words, facts, official Ministry lists or third-party materials as such; copying or distributing the enhanced project database, in whole or in a substantial part, is prohibited.

3. Record-level meaning and editorial transparency

The same displayed English entry may occur more than once in Band II. Each occurrence remains an independent Ministry-derived record with its own ID, core, group, grammatical role, meaning, translation and example. Records are never merged merely because their spelling is identical.

When repeated entries represent different meanings, the distinction is documented inside each record. For example, degree appears once with the sense “temperature” and again with the broader sense “amount.” This prevents one translation or example from silently replacing another valid use.

Hebrew glosses and examples are written in the simplest natural language that preserves the source meaning. Where the evidence still leaves two plausible meanings, the item is marked for a teacher decision rather than changed automatically.

4. Group organization and teaching method

Records are shuffled within their own core and divided into 20 manageable groups. The shuffle reduces dependence on alphabetical or source order while preserving the official Core I/Core II classification.

Each group combines flashcards, pronunciation, spelling, meaning choices and short contextual practice. The learning loop prioritizes coverage, returns difficult records after a gap and avoids presenting the same correct-answer position repeatedly. This lets a teacher use one group as a focused lesson, homework unit or review set.

5. Learner support and accessibility

The activities are designed for phones, tablets and computers. They support touch and keyboard navigation, card flipping, clear audio, spelling practice and layouts that adapt to long vocabulary items on narrow screens.

The main version supplies Hebrew meaning support, and a parallel set of 40 activities supplies Arabic support while preserving the same core and group numbers. Teachers can therefore assign the same curriculum group to learners who need different first-language scaffolding.

6. Direct links and unique sharing previews

Every direct group link is configured with its own identifying sharing preview. There are 80 preview-enabled links: 40 Hebrew-support group links and 40 matching Arabic-support group links.

Each 1200 × 630 preview identifies the core, group number, support language, number of records and representative examples from that group. When a teacher shares a link in a service that supports Open Graph or Twitter cards, recipients can identify the assigned group before opening it.

The copy button on the activity menu produces the permanent direct URL for that group. The preview belongs to that exact URL, so links to different groups do not collapse into one generic Band II card.

7. Privacy and local progress

Students do not need an account. The site does not collect names, email addresses, IP addresses, typed answers, voice recordings, student profiles or browser fingerprints, and saved learning progress is not sent automatically to a teacher or to the server.

In Core I, a learner may explicitly choose to save mastery progress in local storage on the current device. If the learner does not consent, practice remains available and progress stays limited to the current session. Interface preferences may also be kept locally so that the site behaves consistently when the learner returns.

Separate limited operational analytics may record the site and page, a temporary visit identifier, broad actions, completion, approximate active time, broad device categories and a random anonymous browser identifier that rotates after 30 days. These measurements are used to improve the learning experience and do not include the learner’s identity or typed responses. Read the complete privacy notice.

8. Practical classroom use

1. Begin with Core I unless the learner has completed it or the teacher directs the learner to Core II.
2. Select one lesson-sized group and share its direct link with the class.
3. Use the flashcards and audio for presentation or guided practice.
4. Ask learners to complete the group independently for homework or review.
5. Revisit difficult records without relying on live teacher monitoring or automatic student reporting.

Online learning-only licence

Project-owned content and data may be accessed and used only for learning, including teacher-led learning, and only through the live E‑Vocab Band II website interface. A direct activity link may be shared solely to support learning through the site.

No licence is granted to download, extract, copy, scrape, reproduce, distribute, republish, modify, create derivative works, use commercially, train a model, or incorporate any project-owned content or data into another database, application, service or product. All rights not expressly granted are reserved. The governing Hebrew text in the complete copyright and limited-use licence is the controlling and binding version.

9. Resources available now

10. Possible future complementary resources

The resources below are not currently available. They are possible future developments, not promises and not part of the present Band II learning unit.

• A matching teacher slide presentation for each practice group.
• Printable multi-version tests for selected groups.
• Separate answer keys and optional scoring software.
• A voluntary way to transfer progress between devices.
• A separate teacher reception area for completion evidence that a learner explicitly chooses to submit.

Automatic teacher monitoring, automatic result delivery and silent cross-device tracking are not current features. Any future reporting system would remain separate from the student site and would require a clear learner action, transparent disclosure and the consent required by law and project policy.

About the editor

E‑Vocab Band II was created and edited by Teacher Simon Halevi as part of English for Noar. The Teacher Guide focuses on the curriculum structure, teaching method, editorial safeguards and responsible use of the learning environment.

גרסת מסד הנתונים עברה הגהה לשונית והשבחה פדגוגית מקיפה, לרבות הבחנה בין משמעויות, התאמת תרגומים ודוגמאות, סיווג, בחירה, סידור, חלוקה לקבוצות ובקרת איכות. העבודה המקורית והגרסה הפדגוגית המושבחת מוגנות בזכויות יוצרים לפי הדין החל; אין להעתיק או להפיץ אותן. השימוש מותר ללמידה בלבד ורק באמצעות האתר החי. הנוסח העברי של הצהרת הזכויות ורישיון השימוש הוא הנוסח הקובע והמחייב.