Pflaum Webinars
Pflaum offers webinars for catechists, teachers, catechetical leaders, and parents. To view the current list of webinars, click here.
Teaching Guides
If you’ve misplaced your guide or need to give one to a substitute, just print a copy.
Teaching Guide – Unit 1, Sep. 22 – Nov. 10 (English)
Teaching Guide – Unit 1, Sep. 22 – Nov. 10 (Spanish)
Teaching Guide – Unit 2, Nov. 17 – Jan. 12 (English)
Teaching Guide – Unit 2, Nov. 17 – Jan. 12 (Spanish)
Teaching Guide – Unit 3, Jan. 19 – Mar. 9 (coming soon)
Teaching Guide – Unit 4, Mar. 16 – May 11 (coming soon)
Teaching Guide – Summer Solemnities (English)
with pages from the Catechism Handbook
Weekly Videos
Venture users: Use these videos as you discuss Sunday’s Gospel. Please preview to select the video appropriate for your group.
The Gospel at Home
Designed for busy families, The Gospel at Home provides a short description of the Sunday Gospel plus suggested activities and discussion starters for each age level. These easy-to-do ideas will bring families together to share what each member has learned about the Gospel that they heard on Sunday (and studied in class). Print them out to send home or send as a link in a weekly email. Available in English and Spanish.
Lesson Updates
Here you will find information specific to lessons and Teaching Guides—when new material has been added to the website, corrections or additions to printed material (e.g., the editors forgot to put the answers to a quiz in a Teaching Guide), or even a video showing how to assemble a booklet or craft project. We will list these items by week and lesson level. If you see something we’ve overlooked, email editor@pflaum.com, and we will add it here.
Seasonal Activities
Using the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies is the best way to align your catechetical classes to the Church’s Liturgical Year. We also provide these seasonal resources to enhance and reinforce your lessons in class or at home.
Early Start and Late Close Lessons
Sometimes your schedule doesn’t exactly match ours. These lessons will help you if you begin earlier or end later than our lessons do.
Early Start Lessons (English)
Early Start Lessons (Spanish)
Late Close Lessons (English)
Late Close Lessons (Spanish)
NEW! Summer Solemnities Lessons
Additional Pflaum Gospel Weeklies lessons for every level to enable you to extend your faith formation program!
Assessments
It’s important to assess student comprehension and to gauge the effectiveness of your teaching methods. These assessments (available for grades K-9) are provided in three formats—PDF to make duplication simple, Word if you wish to personalize them to your needs and Interactive through which students can take the assessment online. Permission is granted to duplicate these ONLY as a supplement to the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies.
Weekly Review Template
Children will better understand and retain the Sunday Gospel concept when they can express it in their own words and drawings. They practice their prayers in order to learn them by heart, so they can pray them on their own and with others. Catechists and teachers may print weekly review templates for the children to complete at home or attach them to a weekly email. Weekly review templates can be found in both English and Spanish.
Parent Teaching Pages
Parent Teaching Pages are easy-to-use guides that walk parents through teaching each lesson with step-by-step instructions, background information, and discussion starters.
This Teaching Companion along with the guide that accompanies each issue of the Pflaum Gospel Weeklies provides you ways to help children master the teachings found in their Catechism handbooks, What the Church Believes and Teaches and Mi fe católica.
Includes information about how children learn, creating a positive learning environment, praying with children, and much more.
For the Three-Year Scope and Sequence Charts, click here.
A faith formation program centered on the Sunday liturgy that is engaging, easy to teach, and involves the family.
You will receive timely teaching resources and links to additional classroom and at-home activities.
