The Ad-Duha Arabic Exercise Book series is designed to teach children to read and understand the Qur’an. Therefore, all vocabulary and examples used come directly from the Qur’an, and focus on greater understanding of the Qur’an. The goal of these books is not to teach spoken Arabic, conversational Arabic or Modern Standard Arabic (used in newspaper, magazines, etc.). Each book in the series features:

• memory helpers
  
• coloring pages
  
• tracing guides
  
• writing practice
  
• puzzles
  
• matching
  
• vocabulary building
• and much more!

Arabic Exercise Book III:
Writing short ayaat (verses), tashkeel (vowel markings), beginning rules of tajweed, vocabulary building and how to navigate through the Qur’an.

Qur’anic Arabic workbook for beginning students (those who know the alphabet and how to connect letters, but need to learn the vowel markings in order to read). This workbook is part 2 of 2 that are used as part of the Ad-Duha Institute Level B Islamic Studies and Arabic home school curriculum.

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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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.

Student Text: The student text is the first step of I Love Arabic Series (from 7 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.
• Sounds: The Arabic language is introduced sound by sound to avoid difficulties that students may encounter while learning letters with similar appearance or sound.

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.
• Writing: Students practice writing letters and then joining them to become words. Illustrations help students to visualize words.
• Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the workbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

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

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

Our Arabic Language Textbook introduces different thematic units for first grade students.
Starting with preparation lessons, this textbook includes different activities to help students become acclimated to Our Arabic Language learning:

1. Naming Exercises: things, people, jobs, activities, and parts of things
2. Matching Exercises: Creating relationships with objects, so children can learn to recognize wholes and parts
3. Direction Exercises
4. Time and Place Relation Exercises
5. Length, Size, and Color Exercises
6. Rummage Exercises
7. Line Drawing Exercises
8. Compositions Exercises

Thirty-two units are distributed into 2 parts; each part containing a variety of subjects that introduce social, religious, and cultural aspects of our children’s daily life. Part 1 includes 16 units (149 pages) containing titles, such as My Family, I Love my Country, Prayer, Sport, My City Amman, and more. Throughout the themes of each lesson, students practice the 4 language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. There are also exercises covering suggested letters, read and match activities, abstract exercises for letters and vowels, listening, chanting exercises, and different associative 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.

The third student's book consists of 5 units, and each unit has 5 lessons, so that in total, the book has 25 lessons. Each unit ends with a comprehensive test over the skills presented in the unit. Each lesson focuses on a text which presents linguistic activities. These texts vary between stories and conversations, with each unit including three stories, a conversation, and a short informative passage.

This is the most comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers attending Islamic schools in North America. The author lived and taught in the West, adding a great advantage toward this recommended series, which aims to focus on similar letters, reading and comprehension, creative writing exercises, ordering, pronunciation, fill in missing letters, matching, time, and gender. Strongly recommend for children who have had previous exposure to the Arabic language. It is used by a number of full-time Islamic schools throughout the U.S. and comes highly recommended.

• Preparing and carrying out programs and curricula for teaching Arabic language and culture.
• Evaluating programs designed for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers.
• Preparing and developing measurement and evaluation tools in the field of teaching Arabic as a second or foreign language.
• Enhancing cooperation with other institutions interested in promoting the Arabic language, by carrying out Arabic courses abroad.

Features:

• Teaches Arabic as a primary language
• Arabic only
• Uses vowelled letters (diactrical marks, or tashkeel)
• Textbooks focus: listening, writing, reading, and speaking
• Workbooks focus: exercises and games that support the textbook
• Evaluations follow every 5 lessons
• Exposes students to common terminology
• Illustrated dictionary plus vocabulary list
• Ideal for Western students; themes are heavily cultural, not necessarily Islamic.
• A comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers in full-time Islamic and public schools

Textbook for grade 4 build on the language concepts and vocabulary introduced in the previous textbooks. Students are introduced to new grammatical rules and sentence building. The textbooks also offer more diverse activities to enhance comprehension and to allow for additional practice.
This series levels lay the firm foundations necessary for students to develop language proficiency in the future. Now greater emphasis is placed on sentence formation and conversational Arabic. The alphabet is introduced using fun illustrations. Students are encouraged to use the correct pronunciation. There is a gradual introduction to vowels and basic vocabulary. Nasheed sections combine enjoyment with education. Oral drills using short sentences allow students to begin developing their spoken language skills. The objective is to make learning Arabic more easily achievable and enjoyable for students. Students begin to perform the 'Tajreed' of the letters and learn how they are used in different words. Over all levels the students are introduced to more grammar and vocabulary with focus using fun illustrations. Alphabetical knowledge is reinforced and the 'Tanween' is introduced at certain age appropriate level. Conversational skills are further developed using a broader range of vocabulary. Writing skills are focused upon. Islamic poetry, haddith and 'Surahs' are studied. The workbook supplements the textbook in order to enhance comprehension and writing skills. Coloring activities, word formation and writing practice exercises to reinforce the new grammatical concepts introduced in the textbook. More over workbooks accompanies the textbook Includes fun coloring and matching activities; lots of exercises to practice forming the letters and to reinforce concepts. This is a substantial workbook as students need plenty of practice at this stage of language study. The tenses which are introduced in the textbook are covered, the masculine and feminine nouns and other grammatical concepts.

Features:

• Arabic only
• Islamic themes.
• Various exercises.
• Handwriting practice.
• High-quality print with large font, easy to read.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 3 textbook teaches the 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 about daily life: jogging, the library, saying sorry, surprises, and going to the store.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 3 textbook enables non-Arabic speakers to recognize the sounds and shapes of the Arabic letters and to learn how to read and write them. This level also discusses the present tense, first and second person pronouns, prepositions, and mudaf constructions.
The Arabic Language Friends Level 3 textbook teaches non-Arabic speakers a lot of vocabulary and expressions used in daily life: introductions, where you live, polite phrases, the days of the week, and the months of the year.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 3 textbook is 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 3 workbook.

Objectives of the book:

• Introducing the names of things surrounding the student.
• Introducing colors – recognize landscape.

Grammatical structures:

• The Imperative verb.
• The 1st person pronoun.

The linguistic resources:

• Lesson (Season).
• Lesson (Take).
• Lesson (Branch).
• Lesson (Red).
• Lesson (Pink).
• Lesson (White).
• Lesson (Picking).
• Lesson (Stop).
• Lesson (Shadow).
• Lesson (Exceeding).

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. 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.