Arabic Exercise Book II is a Qur’anic Arabic workbook for beginning students (those that know the alphabet but need to learn how to connect letters to read words). This workbook is part 1 of 2 that are used as part of the Ad-Duha Institute Level “A” Islamic Studies and Arabic home school curriculum.
This is a plenty of exercises that all about connecting letters, vocabulary, writing practice, how to navigate through the Qur’an.

The new textbooks have been designed resting on the concept of Mahawir or "field of activities", which fall under two or three interrelated units dealing with topics related to the daily life and interests of students. Within each unit are seven to eight 'to the point' lessons dealing with conversational Arabic, reading, vocabulary and linguistic structures, applied grammar, spelling and dictation, review and reinforcement and finally cultural enrichment.
In addition each textbook contains a supplement of 4 to 5 units focusing on Islamic themes.

Designed with beginners in mind, this book will assist you in reading and writing the Arabic alphabet. Practice writing by using written exercises, learn to say the Arabic letters and add new words to your vocabulary. Words are taken from everyday usage, allowing them to be utilized in daily life. English Phonetics are used to introduce each new Arabic letter and vocabulary word. A tool for uniting the family, it enables the whole family to have fun together through the learning process.

 1. Student Text: The student text is the first step of I Love Arabic Series (from 6 years old) and is supported by a comprehensive workbook, handwriting book, and teacher case. The text is comprised of 28 units discussing the 28 letters of Arabic alphabet. Each unit is divided accordingly:

• Reading Dialogue: Simple and short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures, aim to facilitate learning by teaching the language process and communication.
• Conversation: Conversational exercises encourage students to participate in classroom activities, apply reading material within dialogue, and ultimately become fluent speakers.
• Sounds: The Arabic language is introduced sound by sound to avoid difficulties that students may encounter while learning letters with similar appearance or sound.
• Vocabulary: Vocabulary words are taken directly from reading dialogue. They are combined with graphics to further student understanding and sensory perception.

2. Workbook: The patterns of excersises include:

• Listening Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for new vocabularies and expressions.
• Letters Apperception: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for the vocalized letter by circle it.
• Writing: This section focuses on students’ practice writing letters and then joining them to become words where illustrations help students to visualize words.
• Reading: to read the new letters, words then expressions gradually.
• Vocabulary: New vocabulary is listed to help with student memorization.
• Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the workbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

3. Handwriting Book: Students practice writing Arabic letters, words, and then expressions.
4. Teacher Case: Consists of:

• Teacher Guide: Tips on efficient teaching practices
• Posters to be used as classroom visual aids
• Audio tapes

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Objectives of the book:

• Deepening family connection, parents’ obedience.
• Introducing animals, their different names and types.
• Knowing the advantage of Islamic greeting and its effect in the community.

Grammatical structures:

• Using the original marks (Formation).
• Knowing Al-Madd with Alf and ya’a.
• Solar Letters - Lunar letters.
• 3rd person pronoun.
• 2nd person pronoun.

The linguistic resources:

• A group of lessons about family.
• Sourat Quraish.
• Lessons about animals.
• Lesson (Islamic greeting).
• Lesson (In the name of Allah).

This series seeks to teach children and enhance the linguistic skills for non-Arabic speakers.
Here are some of the highlighted objectives:

1. Endearing Arabic language to students and enable them to understand its meanings when listening.
2. Allow students to read Arabic language a correct loud reading while getting through what they are reading.
3. Enrich students with great linguistic resources so they would be able to format correct Arabic sentences.
4. Educate students with the features of Arabic and Islamic culture.
5. Allow students to learn other subjects in Arabic.
6. And all this would help students to recite The Holy Quran, understand its meanings and perform Islamic rituals in Arabic.

This series relays on five main fundamentals are:

1. Psychological bases.
2. Linguistic bases.
3. Cultural bases.
4. Educational bases.
5. Social bases.

From here students will learn the linguistic skills in the following order:

1. Listening skill
2. Speaking skill.
3. Reading skill.
4. Writing skill.

We would like to point out the recommended teaching methods for teaching these different linguistic skills: Listening and speaking skills: teaching listening and speaking skills aims to:

1. Accustom students to Arabic sounds. 2
2. To aware students to the changing meanings by changing tones in one sentence.
3. Allow students to mimic the teacher in speech.
4. Allow students to understand what is heard.
5. The ability to continue listening to Arabic conversations.
6. The ability to speak Arabic language a regular speech similar to our children.

Reading skill: the method of teaching the reading skill will progress according to what education scientists call (the Synthesis method) which is based on benefiting the following methods:

1. The total method.
2. The partial method.
3. The combination method.
4. The analysis method.
5. The vocal method.

The writing skill: the method which is used for this skill in this series books is the direct dictation which benefit from the different dictation methods and they are:

1. Imparted dictation.
2. Visual dictation.
3. Audible dictation.
4. Experimental dictation.

Time plan:
The books of this series are school books so the time that is acted for is measured by the time of a class which is 45 minutes and we call each class an hour study that means the days specified to study this book may increase or decrease according to the hours specified for a day of studying.

Language used in teaching:
The teacher is obligated to speak, explain, analyze and discuss in formal fluent Arabic language, and he is not allowed to use an intermediary language whatever that language was.

Level 1 lays the firm foundation necessary for students to develop language proficiency in the future. The alphabet is introduced using fun illustrations, while students are encouraged to use correct pronunciation. There is a gradual introduction to vowels and basic vocabulary. Students begin to perform the "tajreed" of the letters and learn how they are used in different words. Nasheed sections combine enjoyment with education. Oral drills using short sentences allow students to begin developing their spoken language skills.
Al-Aafaq fil lughati al-Arabiyaah (Horizons) Arabic Textbooks uses a new Arabic language model. The objective is to make learning Arabic easy, achievable, and enjoyable for students.
A workbook accompanies the textbook in order to enhance comprehension and writing skills. It includes fun coloring and matching activities with lots of exercises to practice forming letters and to reinforce concepts. Workbooks are now printed on better quality paper.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook teaches Arabic language; it is part of a series of educational books intended for students learning Arabic as a second language. It includes 16 lessons on different topics in daily life: the morning, going to the dentist, welcomes, and car safety.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook teaches non-Arabic speakers to recognize the sounds and shapes of the Arabic letters and how to read and write them. This level also includes a discussion of singular and dual words, pronouns, interrogative words, adverbs, demonstrative pronouns, and the past tense.
The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook teaches non-Arabic speakers a lot of vocabulary and expressions used in daily life: parts of the body, family members, feelings, flags and nationalities, and the clock and time.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 2 textbook is a part of the Arabic Language Friends educational series and is one of Dar Al-Manhal's unique books. It should be used with the Arabic Language Friends Level 2 workbook.

The I Love Arabic Series comes to you from expert language teachers living in over 41 European countries. It focuses on teaching the Arabic language to non-native speakers, especially benefiting those who have little time to commit to Arabic throughout the weekdays, and makes learning easy by covering several educational levels: Kindergarten level for ages 3-5 years old and levels 1-6 for ages 6-11 years old. Three systematic divisions (sounds, words and syntactical structure, and conversational practices) enable the learner to generate language accurately in a variety of highly successful modern techniques. These focus sections present the Arabic language clearly and inclusively to meet the needs of Western learners. This curriculum develops fluency by communication, discovery, realization, and then application. It helps Arabic learners to deal confidently with Arabic culture, plus different types of reading and listening passages:

1. Reading techniques are developed through the study of a wide selection of authentic reading passages, including classic Arabic without concentration on spoken dialect. Regular vocabulary exercises examine word building techniques.
2. Careful balances of authentic and scripted listening materials build confidence whilst offering the ability to communicate with native Arabic speakers.
3. A presentation of Arabic culture patterns help Western children to connect with their Arabic speaking peers in other parts of the world.

1. Student Text The student text is the first step of I Love Arabic Series (from 8 years old) and is supported by a comprehensive workbook, handwriting book, and teacher case. The text is comprised of 16 units discussing critical issues of a child’s world. Each unit is divided accordingly:
 

• Reading Dialogue: Simple and short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures, aim to facilitate learning by teaching the language process and communication.
• Vocabulary: Vocabulary words are taken directly from reading dialogue. They are combined with graphics to further student understanding and sensory perception.
• Conversation: Conversational exercises encourage students to participate in classroom activities, apply reading material within dialogue, and ultimately become fluent speakers.
• Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the workbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

2. Workbook: The patterns of exercises include:

• Listening Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for new vocabularies and expressions.
• Reading Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for the meaning of dialogue expressions.
• Vocabulary: New vocabulary is listed to help with student memorization.
• New Phrases: More exercises to support the student text.
• Writing Composition: This section focuses on word expressions and sentences to reinforce more complete writing skills.
• Grammar: A special concentration of theory and practice make learning grammar easier to understand.

3. Handwriting Book: Students practice writing Arabic letters, words, and then expressions.
4. Teacher Case: Consists of:

• Teacher Guide: Tips on efficient teaching practices.
• Posters to be used as classroom visual aids.
• Audio tapes.

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Our Arabic Language introduces different thematic units for second grade students. It contains 16 units divided into 2 parts; each part containing various subjects that introduce social, religious, and cultural aspects of our children’s daily lives. Part 1 includes 8 units (86 pages). Each unit is formed to enhance basic language skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Within the different thematic units and activities, students are encouraged to read, explain, comprehend, analyze, and join words into a short conversation.
Each unit includes the following exercises:

1. Pronunciation of words and reading text
2. Word definition
3. Comprehension and discussions
4. Analysis and composition sentences
5. Conversation
6. Writing
7. Chanting
8. Memorizing short Surah or Haddith
9. Listening and answering
10. Class activities

This series comes in 6 levels consisting of 2 parts each, except for Level 6. Each level contains 2 student textbooks (one for each part) and a handwriting book.