Echoes | Upper Elementary Teacher's Commentary | Summer 2026

Echoes provides African-American children in fourth and fifth grades with a Sunday school experience that deepens their own Bible study and builds out their foundation of faith, while at the same time offering real-life application and support for their expanding perspective of the world and how they fit in.

In every lesson, teachers will find Bible background information, tips on understanding and teaching upper-elementary kids, and thought-provoking questions with biblically accurate answers to guide your students into age-appropriate Bible study.

Need one per teacher.

View the Echoes Scope & Sequence 

Features:

• Understanding the Bible sections help the teacher prepare for the class
• Understanding Your Students shares tips on preteen development
• Easy four-step lesson:
• A Life Need to get preteens engaged with the topic of the week
• A Bible Learning Step, where preteens will read the week's Bible passage, answer questions, and discuss
• A Bible Application Step in which the teacher has three choices for activities that will help preteens explore the Bible lesson in-class
• A final Life Response Step, where preteens will take ownership of putting into practice that week's Bible principle
• Quarterly supply list
• Ideas for early arrivers and when you have extra time
• Link to Last Week section helps the teacher discuss how students applied the lesson throughout the week and encourage them

Additional resources for Echoes Upper Elementary Sunday school lessons:

• Creative Teaching Aids
• Bible Adventures (Student Book)
• PIX (Take-Home)

 

Echoes Sunday School Curriculum

God's resounding word for a multicultural world.

Echoes Sunday School Curricula (Literature) is one of the most widely used resources in the African American Church today and has been for over 25 years. A derivative of Bible-in-Life curricula, Echoes is reaching many denominations and churches.

Churches looking to grow as a family will testify that these resources are relevant, biblically sound, applicable to everyday living situations and contain culturally relevant topics and African American imagery for all age levels, Toddler through Adult.

Here's what Ministries love about Echoes curriculum:

• Easy to use 4-step lessons with an emphasis on Scripture memory
  
• Adult Lessons follow ISSL Format
  
• Unified themes across ages levels
  
• Each Teacher Commentary include Bible Extra’s
  
• Age-appropriate and theologically accurate lessons
  
• Bible Application encouraged at all age levels
  
• Quarterly Black History Feature
  

 

See How It Works

 

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.

Notes about product download licensing:

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