Echoes | Elementary Teacher's Commentary | Fall 2026

Echoes provides African American children in second and third grades with a Sunday school experience that matches their growing independence and responsibility, rapidly increasing vocabulary and memorization ability, increased writing and drawing skills, and especially their capacity to more deeply grasp the love of God and the meaning and application of the truths within His Word.

Each of the 13 lessons contains step-by-step instructions to help prepare and teach. Tips help teachers understand second and third graders, with helpful suggestions for enhancing their Sunday school experience. Follows a four-step learning cycle to help teachers reach every child the way God made them. Understanding the Bible sections provide interesting information about each Scripture passage.

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Features:

• Understanding Your Students and Understanding the Bible sections help the teacher prepare
• Easy four-step lesson plan:
• Life Need: motivational lesson starters
• Bible Learning: engaging Bible stories, review activities, memory verse practice (includes Bible Words, Bible Story, Bible Review, and depending on the lesson, the Memory Verse)
• Bible Application: fun student activities (may include the Memory Verse)
• Life Response real-life applications-includes a prayer time and, depending on the lesson, the Memory Verse
• Full of helpful tips to help the teacher

Additional resources for Echoes Elementary Sunday school lessons:

• Creative Teaching Aids 
• My Bible Book (Student Book)
• Kid Crafts (Craft Book)
• Friends (Take-Home)

 

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About Echoes Sunday School Curriculum

Lessons for today. Faith for a lifetime. With a comprehensive catalog of flexible materials, Bible-in-Life lets you build a children’s ministry program that fits your budget and your church. Because every day is different, Bible-in-Life uses real-world applications to reveal God’s Word in everyday moments.

All ages levels of Echoes curriculum feature:

• Easy teacher prep along teaching insights and weekly lesson tips
• Original songs that follow each unit theme –3 themes and songs per quarter
• A variety of activities choose from in every lesson
• Creative Teaching Aids packed with posters, games Bible characters and more
• Weekly take-home resources for kids and parents

Order the print edition, and you'll get:

• The printed book (8 3/8" x 10 7/8") shipped from our distribution center

Order either PDF download edition, and you'll get access to the following for 6 months:

• The Teacher Guide PDF Edition in PDF format making it easy to use on any digital device. You'll need Adobe® Reader® to open the files.

This product license is good for 6 months. After 6 months, you must purchase another license.

The single-use download edition is limited to use for 1 teacher at a single site. If you have more than 1 teacher, please order the multi-use use edition.

The multi-use download edition is for multiple teachers at a single site.