This is the most comprehensive curriculum for teaching Arabic to students in Islamic schools in the West. The author's experience living and teaching in North America influenced the curriculum, which focuses on similar letters, reading and comprehension, creative writing exercises, ordering, pronunciation, filling in the missing letter, and matching time and gender.

It is used by full-time Islamic schools throughout the US and comes highly recommended, especially for children who have had previous exposure to the Arabic language. Objectives

• Preparing and carrying out programs and curriculums 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 offering Arabic courses abroad

Features

• Teaches Arabic as a primary language
• Arabic only
• Vowelled letters (diacritical marks, or tashkeel)
• Textbook focus: listening, writing, reading, and speaking
• Workbook 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

This book contains 28 units for the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. Each unit is divided into the following:
 
Dialogue: Each unit starts with an easy, short dialogue, exposing students to vocabulary words, expressions and syntactical structures. This dialogue section is aimed at making students more adept at language usage.
 
Speaking: Each unit includes exercises for speaking in pairs, so students can become more fluent at using the language. Speaking exercises are interactive, and draw on the material used in the dialogue exercises.
 
Sound & Pronunciation: These sections present each of the Arabic sounds, and guide students on correct pronunciation.
- New Vocabulary: This section contains pictured vocabulary terms, to enrich the student’s vocabulary with new words.

This series consists of 3 levels with a student textbook and workbook.

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.
• New Vocabularies: New vocabularies are listed aim to enrich children’s linguistic account.
• Reading: Revision for the short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures.
• Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the Textbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

2. Workbook: The patterns of excersises include:

• 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 and more exercises for matching between singular and plural words and more on matching between related pictures
•  Reading: Revision for the short passages comprising linguistic structures of sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntax structures
•  Sounds: The Arabic language is introduced sound by sound to avoid difficulties that students may encounter while learning letters with similar appearance or sound.
• 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

For more information in Arabic...

• This is an old edition, it is discontinued after finishing all quantities.

This curriculum is highly recommended for children with little or no background in Arabic. Can be effectively used for full-time or weekend schools. Home schooling parents will appreciate this series due to its clarity and simplicity of presentation. It is very eye-catching and appealing to the student. Each grade level is packed with full-color illustrations, plenty of space for writing and a lot of fun exercises.
The author lived and taught in the West and so understands and works to overcome the barriers to teaching Arabic to children raised in a Western environment.
 
Features:

• Arabic only.
• Modern methodology.
• Emphasizes listening, oral and reading skills.
• Voweled letters. High-quality print with large font – easy to read.
• Full-color illustrations.
• Common terminology.
• Simple, clear, illustrations provide directions.
• Exercises are short and entertaining.
• Promotes thinking and analyzing in Arabic.
• Strong Islamic content and moral values.
• Highly recommended for non-Arabic speaking children.

This book helps students acquire knowledge of Arabic in the classical structural form. It teaches essential language skills through applied grammar. This colorful book with friendly images is an ideal introduction to the Arabic letters and their different shapes. These shapes are shown with the help of very simple and easy words. A variety of exercises help students understand the letters and their shapes.

Arabic Exercise Book II is 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 2 of 2 that are used as part of the Ad-Duha Institute Level “A” Islamic Studies and Arabic home school curriculum.
There are plenty of exercises facilitate writing skills such as connecting letters, vocabulary, writing practice, and how to navigate through the Qur’an.

The Arabic Language Friends Level 1 textbook teaches Arabic language; it is part of a series of educational books intended for students learning Arabic as a second language. It includes 8 units. Each unit has 2 lessons with different topics about daily life: at home, at school, my relatives, the garden, the market, hygiene, a birthday, and my country.
The Arabic Language Friends Level 1 textbook teaches the Arabic language and enables non-Arabic speakers to recognize the sounds and shapes of Arabic letters and to learn how to read and write them. This level also discusses masculine and feminine words and singular and plural words.
The Arabic Language Friends Level 1 textbook teaches non-Arabic speakers a lot of vocabulary and expressions used in daily life: things at house and at school, how to say hello, fruits and vegetables, and colors.
The Arabic Language Friends Level 1 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 1 workbook.

Objectives of the book:

• Deepening the love of the family in their lessons.
• Introducing body parts.
• Introducing transportation.
• Introducing the surrounding means for the student.
• Introducing family members.
• Introducing traffic lights.

Grammatical structures:

• Demonstrative pronouns.
• Introducing question formula.

The linguistic resources:

• Students memorize Sourat AlFateha.
• A group of lessons about family.
• Students memorize Sourat AlEkhlas.
• Lesson (my Allah).
• Lesson (dress).
• Lesson (Hand).
• Lesson (For me and you).

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.

This DVD can help students acquire basic knowledge of the Arabic language, including the alphabet, in listening and in writing. Exercises will help students distinguish the letters, orally and visually.

The Easy Arabic series is an integrated educational curriculum prepared by a team of professional experts. The curriculum covers five levels of study and introduces children to the basics of Arabic through exercises in listening, writing, and conversation. Students who complete this curriculum will become familiar with the sounds of Arabic, learn how to pronounce each letter correctly, write the letters of the Arabic alphabet in all of their forms, and converse with others, using Arabic words and simple, age-appropriate phrases.
Features:

• Arabic only
• Handwriting practice
• High-quality print with large, easy-to-read font
• Modern methodology
• Recommended for weekend schools

This series of "Arabic Language for Beginners" consists of 3 levels. Each level includes two books aim to help students to acquire good speaking, listening and reading skills. This series helps beginners build gradual interest in developing practical linguistic skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. All this will make the student able to pronounce and speak Arabic well. We have chosen an attractive way that is suitable for the children like rhythm and coloring.

• Builds linguistic skills
• Focuses on reading and listening
• Caters to different levels in Arabic
• Created to make learning fun and exciting
• Practical for beginners
• Increases Arabic-language skills