In the context of B'nei Mitzvah training, this author found that typical learners and individuals with special needs could be aided by modified texts that incorporate techniques learned from both Green and Jacobson. These students need to learn the basics of reading Hebrew and how to read and chant prayers and Biblical texts in preparation for celebrating their B'nei Mitzvah. Most of these students have little to no cognition of the Hebrew language and if they are novice Hebrew readers, their sound-symbol association fluency is still emerging.

By developing a formatting standard and a means of automating the modifications of any extant Hebrew text in the DavkaWriter Hebrew/English word processor, this author has reduced the time to modify large portions of the Tanakh to just a few minutes, rather than going through the text word by word to modify each word and verse by hand. The automation of these modifications creates a consistent appearance that might not otherwise be achieved if one were to do the modifications by hand on such a large scale.

When teaching a student to chant verses of the Torah or Haftarah, there are two methods this author uses:

1. Teach how to chant all the words in the verses of the assigned Torah or Haftarah portion that are marked with a particular ta'am family, such as siluk or etnachta. After mastering all the phrases in this ta'am family, move on to another ta'am family. This method works well with students who have a good musical memory and can transfer a melody learned from the ta'am model to the actual words in a verse of Torah or Haftarah with a phrase marked with the same te'amim as the model. Some students can do this easily. Others have more difficulty.
   
   
2. Provide the student with a recording of each verse. Through repeated listening and personal attempts, the student learns to chant each verse. Sometimes, after learning a few verses, the student recognizes some melodies that are repeated, such as how each verse ends with a variation of the same melody. At that point they can continue to learn using a combination of these two methods.

In both cases, a typical student who has learned how to decode Hebrew can use any rendering of the Hebrew text to learn their assignments. For instance, this author learned how to chant Torah and Haftarah using 'Tikkun Lakor’im", published by K'tav Publishing House, but now uses "Tikkun Kor’im-Simanim". Unfortunately, there is little hint from the texts themselves as to how the te'amim are grouped into anything more resolved than whole verses, unless one knows the grammatical structure of the te'amim. Moreover, students who are novice Hebrew readers usually benefit from as much visual help from the study text as possible. When Hebrew is easier to read, it can act as a motivator, rather than create a hindrance to learning.