A Faithful and Engaging Catechetical Series
With Improved Teacher's Manuals!
The Faith and Life - Third Edition religious
education series presents Catholic teaching using time-tested methods of catechesis and faith formation, in a beautiful,
student-friendly, comprehensive format and has been updated to correspond with the implementation of the New Roman Missal.
It is excellent for grades 1-8 in Catholic schools, parish catechetical programs, and home schools.
Correlated with the Catechism of the Catholic Curch, the Faith and Life - Third Edition features ample use of Scripture to complement the series' outstanding presentation of Catholic doctrine and practices. The recently improved teacher's manuals have a new layout and color-coded system to help make lesson planning easier and more effective.
To compare a chapter of lessons from the updated teacher's manual to your current teacher's manual, click here.
Current users of Faith and Life may also click here for an overview of changes to the series since 2007 and how the new teacher's manuals match up to various reprints of the student textbook..
Faith and Life Student Texts provide:
- clear, comprehensive, and exciting presentations of Catholicism tailored to different grade levels
- catechesis corresponding to the four pillars of the Catechism, covering Catholic doctrine, morality, sacraments, and prayer
- emphasis on forming young people to live the Catholic faith by balancing affective and experiential aspects of catechesis with a systematic presentation of Catholic doctrine
- biblically based presentations of salvation history
- questions and answers that synthesize and distill key doctrinal elements to be mastered by students
- beautiful, inspirational, and instructive art
Activity Books
- Designed for classroom or home use
- Feature creative activities for review, reinforcement, and enrichment of each lesson
Student Texts:
- have been declared to be in conformity with the Catechism of the Catholic Church by the U.S. Bishops’ Committee on the Catechism
- also conform with the Vatican’s General Directory for Catechesis
- incorporate specific references to the Catechism of the Catholic Church
- incorporate even more Scripture into the student texts and activities
Teacher's Manuals feature:
- A new layout that incorporates the teacher's preparation with the inserted student text into a single color coded lesson plan.
- Four lessons and a review for each chapter, so teachers can conveniently pace their lessons to cover one chapter per week, if they choose.
- Lessons and activities for each chapter.
- Prayers, supplemental materials for teachers, Catholic culture boxes with information on saints and other resources for teachers.
- Activity book answer keys and quiz answer keys.
Also check out the Faith and Life webinars.
Have a question on whether or not you need to replace your TM? Click here for a review of changes to Faith and Life since 2007.
