This workbook is designed to be a companion to the IQRA' Arabic Reader 5 textbook. All IQRA' workbooks must be considered an extension of its textbooks and an integral part of the instructional program, without which the learning process will be incomplete. IQRA' Arabic Reader 5 (Workbook) has been designed to be an exercise and activity book, which complements and reinforces what the student learns from the textbook.

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.

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

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.

The I Love and Learn 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.

1. Student Text:The student text is the first step of I Love Arabic Series (from 9 years old) and is supported by a comprehensive workbook, handwriting book, and teacher case. The text is comprised of 7 units discussing critical issues of a child’s world.
Each unit is divided accordingly:
Let’s Talk: Simple passages are the base for learning linguistic structures of sounds, vocabularies, expressions, and syntax structures. This section aims at facilitating the learning and teaching processes of Arabic.
Vocabulary: Vocabulary words are taken directly from reading dialogue. They are combined with graphics to further student understanding and sensory perception.
New Structures: Learn basic Arabic structures through illustrations and examples complete with answer key.
Conversation: Conversational exercises encourage students to participate in classroom activities, apply reading material within dialogue, and ultimately become fluent speakers.
Reading: Reading passages include various cultural subjects with a variety of expressions concentrating on Arabic and Islamic cultures.
Section reading goals include:
Silent sustained reading with complete understanding of content.
Students read the passages aloud, so teachers can correct pronunciation.
Sounds: Students repeat sounds after listening to unit examples.
Oral Expression: Each unit includes an assignment to answer questions based on illustrations.

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 words concentrate on synonyms and antonyms.
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. This section assists students with written and oral expressions skills that will improve their overall thinking and pronunciation sound.
Linguistics: Each unit introduces specific linguistic skills regularly accompanied with examples and exercises.
Dictation: Fill in the blank exercises reinforces grammar and spelling lessons. Handwriting: Students practice writing Arabic letters, words, and then expressions.
Illustrated Dictionary: An illustrated dictionary appears at the end of the workbook and includes word sets found throughout the lessons making memorization easy.

3. 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 first student's book contains 5 units, each with 5 lessons and a test. The book in total includes 25 lessons and 5 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.

This is the most comprehensive curriculum for teaching non-Arabic in Islamic schools in North America. Where The author who lived and taught in the West; add a great advantage toward this recommendation and aim to focus on similar letters, reading and comprehension, creative writing exercises, ordering, pronunciation, fill in missing letter, matching, time, 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

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 K–12 students. 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

The Learn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks, and teacher’s guides for levels K–12. 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 guides offer tips on teaching Arabic efficiently with positive results. Teachers will be pleased with the full array of supporting materials available, such as a collection of audio recordings, posters, and cards. These books also include ideas for additional activities, such as nasheeds (songs), competitions, and plays. All of these materials will help to make each lesson engaging for students.

The 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 a dialogue text, expressions, vocabulary, and communication exercises. These units contain conversations, pronunciation, expressions, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Quran, ahadith and nasheeds. The teacher's guides include a midterm, final test, and answer keys.

The workbooks enhance the material found in the 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.

Professor Abdur Rahim is the director of the Translation Centre of the King Fahd Quran Printing Complex and former professor of Arabic at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. Professor Abdur Rahim's eight-volume texts enable the student to acquire a knowledge of Arabic in the classical structural form. All of the books teach essential language skills through applied grammar. Each lesson is based on a conversation which illustrates distinctive language patterns. A variety of exercises helps the student to understand and master each of the patterns occurring in the lesson. The vocabulary ranges from classical and Quranic Arabic to words and expressions current in modern Arabic. This series of books is currently being utilized at various schools to prepare students for the University of London (UK) GCE O-Level and A-Level examinations.

An integrated learning and educational curriculum prepared by a team of professional experts.
The curriculum covers seven 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 and learn how to pronounce each letter correctly, write the letters of the Arabic alphabet in all their forms, and converse with others, using Arabic words and simple, age-appropriate phrases.

Features:

1. Arabic only
2. Handwriting practice
3. High-quality print with large, easy-to-read font
4. Modern methodology
5. Recommended for weekend schools

There are a total of 16 titles in this series including the student books, student audio-visual CDs, and teacher book.

Objectives of the book:

• Deepening the love of one’s country (Home) and belonging to it.
• Knowing the importance of science in the rise of nations.
• Introducing Islamic manners which every Muslim should commit to.

Grammatical structures:

• Knowing Nunation - (duplicate vowel of the last consonant).
• Using the stress.
• Al-Madd using wow.
• Knowing the word and its opposite.
• Answering questions with (Yes) or (No).

The linguistic resources:

• Sourat Al Alaq.
• Lesson (My country).
• Lesson (My city 1).
• Lesson (My city 2).
• Lesson (I’m the son of a lion).
• Lesson (Read).
• Lesson (knowledge is light).
• Lesson (The school).
• Lesson (To school).
• Lesson (Muslim’s manners).
• Lesson (My garden 1).
• Lesson (My garden 2).
• Lesson (Sami in the garden).

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.