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.

We, at Noorart, believe that 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 25 units: 20 basic units of new material, plus an additional 5 units for revision which appear after every 4th unit. 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 anasheed. Where the teacher books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.
Activity Book: These 41 page activity books 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 first student's book contains 5 units, each with 5 lessons and a test. The book in total includes 25 lessons and 4 unit tests. Each lesson consists of a text that includes conversation, an illustrated story, illustrated vocabulary, practice with sounds and letters, two exercises on linguistic structures and conversation, and writing practice. Then, students should complete the accompanying exercises in the the activity book.

Series goals and components
The goal of the I Love Arabic series is to enable the student’s verbal and written communication skills in Arabic. To achieve this goal, the series provides the student with educational materials that help them to use the classical language from the start, while also creating an opportunity to use what is learned in real-life situations.

While this series is directed at non-native speaking children between the ages of 4 and 12, it is also useful in teaching Arab children all over the world.

This series consists of 8 levels which contain a student textbook, workbook, and teacher book. Some levels also include audio tapes (sold separately).
Also in this series the book "I Love Arabic Teacher's Guide" is for using images and cards in teaching Arabic.

Particular times to teach the units
The series books are taught in about 600 classes (with the average class being 40 minutes).

Each level has 100 classes, distributed as follows:

For the first two books:
75 Classes for the student's book
25 Classes for the exercise workbook

From the third book to the sixth book
80 Classes for the student's book
20 Classes for the student's book


Educational content
The series displays Arabic Islamic manners in an attractive, motivating style for children. It also supplies the student with different levels of general education appropriate to the age (especially the first book). The subjects discussed in this series are child-friendly and include topics such as hobbies and toys, life in school and at home, and relationships with friends, neighbors and relatives. It also studies the animal and plant worlds, the outside world like the village and the city, geographical information about the Arab countries, historical information, good manners and scientific facts.

Lingual content
The series displays the vocal system for the Arabic language in its different phenomena and presents vocabularies built around a child. The elementary stage of the series covers around 1,500 words, with the focus in the first two books being on the sensory vocabulary.
It also supplies the child with a number of basic grammar structures (about 300 compositions), and each lesson contains a specific number of vocabulary, structures and expressions. Additionally, the concept of progression is used from one book to another and from one lesson to another.

Integration between lingual skills
The series deals with the four main lingual skills: reading, listening, speaking and writing and uses a complete and balanced approach to all four skills. Special attention is given to speaking and listening in the first two books, and reading and writing are the focus in the third through the sixth books.

Ways of presenting the educational material
Various techniques were used throughout this series to make the lessons more interesting for the child. Stories, chants, songs, conversations, lingual games, and amusing homework assignments designed to provoke the student's motivation and needs utilizing child skills such as drawing, coloring and teamwork were used.
The series contains different kinds of lingual exercises that suit the child, with emphasis on mental and physical activities in an individual, couple, and group setting.
Each book of the series contains a number of tests for evaluating and measuring the student's progress in learning the language. A test is included at the end of each educational unit; therefore, each book has four transitory tests.
The curriculum depends heavily on the use of pictures so the student can easily comprehend the meaning, without turning to an intermediary language. Thus, they are given the opportunity to think and express themselves in a fun and interactive way.

Figured dictionary
The first two books contain a figured dictionary at the end. This dictionary includes the sensory words mentioned in the lessons so that their meanings remain in the student's memory, and they can reference, if necessary. The figured dictionary also prepares the student to use the Arabic dictionary in the future.

Vocabulary list
There is a list of vocabulary at the end of each of the six books. These lists contain all the words that were introduced in each book and are arranged alphabetically for easy referral.

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

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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 Textbook: 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 14 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.
• Reading Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension for the meaning of dialogue expressions.
• 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 through out determine the position of letter sound and circle it.
• Vocabulary: New vocabulary is listed to help with student memorization.
• Reading: to read the new letters, words then expressions gradually.
• Writing: Students practice writing letters and then joining them to become words. Illustrations help students to visualize words.
• llustrated 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:

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

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 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.

 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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