Arabic At Your Hands Series is one program in a collection of programs called “Arabic For All”. This series comprises a developed version of the book “Arabic At Your Hands”, which introduces a comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers, students and teachers. This curriculum is developed for educational entities, including schools, institutes and universities. It begins from the basic level and continues with the students until they master Arabic language, which enables them to join university and continue their Arabic studies in various majors. The developed series is designed by the authors of the original series, who are an academic team specialized in teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers.

• Level’s units, books and lessons:
  
  The first level consists of two parts (books), each of which includes 8 units (total of 16 units). Each unit consists of 9 lessons, constituting a total of 144 basic lessons in this level.
  
  The lessons of each unit are organized as follows:
  • First lesson: First dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Second lesson: Second dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Third lesson: Third dialogue, its vocabularies and exercises 2 pages
  • Fourth lesson: Vocabularies exercises and additional vocabularies. 2 pages
  • Fifth Lesson: Grammar structures and exercises. 4 pages
  • Sixth lesson: Sounds 3 pages
  • Seventh lesson: Speaking and exercises 3 pages
  • Eighth lesson: Reading and exercises 3 pages
  • Ninth lesson: Writing and exercises 4 pages
  Total of 25 pages per unit



• Tests and Evaluations:
  Two types of tests are included in the first level:
  1. Short tests: 8 tests in each two units
  2. Two comprehensive tests for determining level:
     • Midlevel comprehensive test (at the end of the first book)
     • Final comprehensive test (at the end of the second book)
There are no audio records for final and midtrial tests because answers have to be given from the students not the teacher.


• At its end, the first level includes a group of vocabularies with illustrated pictures. It also comprises lists for vocabularies used in each unit and another list for all vocabularies used in the level arranged alphabetically. It also contains listening texts along with an audio CD (8 hours) covering all texts and some of the exercises included. There is also a preparatory booklet for teaching Arabic letters.Click here to download Arabic Between Your Hands Textbook: Level 1, Part 1 Audio content.

“Arabic in Your Hands Series” is one program in a collection of programs called “Arabic For All”. This series comprises a developed version of the book “Arabic At Your Hands”, which introduces a comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers, students and teachers. This curriculum is developed for educational entities, including schools, institutes and universities. It begins from the basic level and continues with the students until they master Arabic language, which enables them to join university and continue their Arabic studies in various majors. The developed series is designed by the authors of the original series, who are an academic team specialized in teaching Arabic for non-Arabic speakers.

Teacher’s books are identical to student’s book and aim at providing the teacher with a collection of techniques and procedures to help him teach every page in student’s book effectively in a way that achieves the best results. Teacher’s book includes key answers for all exercises used in student’s books. Each teacher’s book includes the student’s book of the same level (the two parts) with smaller page size to make it easy for the teacher to follow the educational material of the student without the need to have the student’s book itself.

*There are four teacher’s books, one for each level as follows:

1. First teacher’s book for the two student’s books of the first level.
2. Second teacher’s book for the two student’s books of the second level.
3. Third teacher’s book for the two student’s books of the third level.
4. Fourth teacher’s book for the two student’s books of the fourth level.

*Each teacher’s books have many advantages, including:

• General guidelines to the teachers for teaching language for non-native speakers along with techniques for presenting different language skills and elements.
• Suggestions about performing the exercises of each level along with suggestion for additional exercises.
• Answers for the exercises of the student’s books (except for communicative and expression exercises), along with comprehension text.
• Answers for the questions of comprehensive tests in student’s books (standard, midlevel and final).
• Summary about the structures, vocabularies and sounds included in each unit and a suggestion for presenting different types of vocabularies.
• Summary about the goal of each unit and the way of presenting text.
• Description of units structure and the way of introducing the structures.

*Other advantages included in teacher’s books:

• 35 general guideline for teacher.
• 24 guideline on managing 67 instructions and tips about teaching language, its skills and elements and how to deal with language classroom.
• tests.

Salient Features of Grade 11
Grade Eleven is designed to meet the need of students preparing for IGCSE/GCE International Examination in the subject of Islamiat.
 
This Grade 11 textbook (for the eleventh grade level) is part of the Islamic Studies Series which covers all areas of Islamic studies: tafseer, hadeeth, tawheed, fiqh, seerah, and general etiquette relating to different areas and situations. Every effort has been made to ensure that the material presented in the series is authentic, and most of the terms are presented in their original Arabic script, along with the transliteration and the translation of their meanings. This also applies to supplications which have to be memorized in their Arabic version. The aim here is to help the reader read the original text and understand its meaning. Each lesson is followed by exercises covering questions about the lesson.
One striking feature in the series is the colorful artwork used in it that certainly appeals to students. This is certainly bound to attract the young readers' attention, stimulate them, amuse them as well as educate them.
This series aims to acquaint the student with the teachings of Islam in every aspect: beliefs, practices and moral conduct. With its unique features it will certainly fill a gap in this area which has long been partially neglected.

Teaching language is a critical tool in communication and ultimately in the development of knowledge. In our quest to provide our customers with quality materials, we are pleased to offer the Learn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach the Arabic language to students in K-12th grade. This series was founded upon the following three fundamentals of teaching languages presented in an Islamic context:

1. Elements: sounds, letters, phrases, and pronunciation
2. Skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening
3. Linguistic Functions: introduction, greetings, description, requests, and apologies.

Series Contents:
The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th grade. The textbooks aim to present basic elements of the Arabic language and their functions, while the activity books focus on enrichment material with special emphasis on writing. The teacher’s manuals offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results.
Support Material:
Teachers will be pleased with the full array of support materials available, such as a collection of audio records, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as chants, competitions, and linguistic plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson exciting and active for students.
Student Textbook:
The Student Textbooks are comprised of 24 units: 66 basic lessons of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision. Each basic unit contains 4 lessons of new material, including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. These units contain conversations, pronunciations and expressions, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, ahadith and nasheed; where the teacher books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.
Activity Book:
The activity book simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. Each contains many different activities which can be done at school or at home, such as coloring and painting pages; word matches; reading letters and sentences; writing words, letters, and numbers; and answering questions. Some of the activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.

The book seeks to present the scientific material in a brief and easy to read format. Emphasis is placed on the basic ideas of the Qur'an subjects. The chosen Ayaat is shown in each lesson without going into much detail, and is appropriate for the level of the student.

In order to stimulate student thinking, some lessons include constructive activities and conclusions. We believe that these activities will convey to students important ideas and meanings found in the Ayaat.

This complete Islamic learning series of specialized subjects is directed to children 6 to 16 years of age. It uses a methodical style in presenting and connecting the subject’s information, and includes all Islamic teachings from the Prophet's biography, stories from the Qur'an, and stories of the companions and followers. In addition to learning the Qur'an and Al Hadeeth Al Nabawi Al Shareef doctrine, each book contains twenty different titles written by the top scientists and educational experts in the various Islamic learning fields.

The learning materials included in each book are reinforced by attractive colors and expressive drawings, designed to excite the reader and hold their attention. Each lesson also ends with a number of activities and different questions. This series can be taught in the private schools of Islamic communities, in summer clubs, and in centers for memorizing the Holy Qur'an.

Goals & Contents:
The “I love Arabic” series will help students with verbal and editorial communication in Arabic. To achieve this goal, the series provides the student with educational materials that will help him to utilize formal Arabic from the start and will create the opportunity for him to use what he is learning in real conversations.

The series is directed towards non-Arabic speaking children ages 6-18 years. It consists of twelve levels, each level includes three books which are:

1. Student’s Book.
2. Student's Workbook.
3. Teacher’s Book.

The linguistic content:
The series displays the vocal system of the Arabic language in its different phenomena. It presents vocabularies that are common in an Arabic dictionary for children. It also features 4,300 words and it concentrates on pictorial concrete vocabulary in the first two books. The series provides the student with a number of basic linguistic structures (about 500 structures). Each lesson contains a specific number of structures and expressions. The lessons gradually advance and each principle is revisited from one lesson to the next. It also includes the entirety of the Arabic syntax rules in the levels (fifth- twelfth) and combines application with practical training based upon theoretical rule.

Integration between the linguistic skills:
The series addresses the four main linguistic skills which are: reading, listening, speaking and writing in a balanced integrated way. Special attention is given to speaking and understanding what is heard in the first two books. In the third through sixth books the concentration is on dictation and reading. In the seventh through ninth books the aim is to connect schools with Arabic libraries, children’s magazines, encyclopedias and helps to simplify knowledge departments. And in the tenth through twelfth books subjects and literature is presented in their original text with some adjustment. It also presents chosen examples of poetry prose from the poets Al Jahili, Al Omawi, Al Abbasi along with contemporary poets.

Educational material presenting methods:
Different methods are used in this series to make the lesson exciting for the child. Stories, songs, conversations, linguistic games and entertaining homework are incorporated in the lessons to entice learning and help students identify their preferences. It also helps to awaken students' passion for drawing, coloring and teamwork. The series includes different types of linguistic exercises that suit children. An emphasis has been given in terms of mental and physical activities, whether performed in pairs or groups.

Vocabulary list:
There is a list of vocabulary at the end of each book in this series that contains all vocabularies and expressions which were presented in all book lessons. The words are alphabetized so the student can find the words needed easily.

Evaluation quizzes:
Each book of the series books includes a number of phase quizzes for evaluation and measuring the student’s progress in learning the language.

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

The twelfth workbook accompanies the twelfth textbook; it reinforces and enhances ideas and skills taken in the textbook. Each lesson in the textbook has three accompanying pages of exercises in the workbook. Student should complete these exercises with a teacher’s help. If a student doesn’t finish them in class, he or she can complete them as homework. Teachers should collect workbooks from students and correct them.

Click here to download the Arabic description for I Love Arabic Workbook Level 12

The Arabic Course for English-Speaking Students is a comprehensive and popular course for the teaching of the Qur'anic and Traditional Arabic, originally devised and taught at the renowned Madinah Islamic University, catering for the non-Arabic speaking students from all over the world. Over the years, this course has enabled students to become competent in their use of the Arabic language and to participate and benefit from scholarly pursuits such as Qur'anic exegesis, hadith, fiqh, sirah, history, and classical and modern Arabic literature.

1. It is concise (consisting of only three books, reasonably short) but extensive in their coverage.
2. It combines modern Arabic vocabulary with Islamic terminology used in the Qur'an and Sunnah.
3. It helps acquire an understanding of hundreds of Qur'anic verses, ahadith, Arabic parables and poetry.
4. The author presents Arabic as a living and vibrant language and takes examples from Arabic in everyday use, as also from the Qur'an and the Sunnah, so that student learns the language. He also acquires an understanding of hundreds of Qur'anic verses, ahadith, Arabic parables and poetry.

In this way, ethical teachings are infused into the whole, and the student becomes directly involved in the study of the Qu'ran and the Sunnah while simultaneously acquiring a sound understanding of the Arabic language.

This Arabic curriculum is geared toward the older child or adult. The focus is based on learning Arabic exclusively through exposure to the Holy Quran. Students are introduced to the Arabic language through letter recognition and reading and writing exercises with words and verses taken from the Quran. Appropriate for Islamic schools and home schools.

This course in Modern Standard Arabic concentrates on listening and speaking skills.

1. Volume 1 comes with a CD and there is a vocabulary glossary at the end of each volume (with meanings in English and French).
2. Volume 2 has been used successfully in classrooms at Arabic teaching centers around the world since its first publication in 1987.
3. Volume 3 approaches the language through a series of themed topics—daily life in the Arab world, politics and governance, literature and the arts, science and medicine, and astronomy—and concentrates principally on listening and speaking skills. In each section, vocabulary is built up as various linguistic structures and strategies are introduced and practiced in a clear introduction to Arabic grammar.
4. A supplementary dictionary, Translator Assistant, contains vocabulary for all three books in English, French, Spanish, and German.

The Living Islam series provides a rich Islamic studies course specifically designed for high school students. It provides the opportunity to thoroughly explore the practical application of Islam in everyday life. The series comprises three textbooks covering three  courses of Islamic studies.