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 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.

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

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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Our Arabic Language introduces different thematic units for second grade students. It contains 20 units divided into 2 parts; each part containing various subjects that introduce social, religious, and cultural aspects of our children’s daily lives. Part 2 includes 10 units (93 pages) containing titles, such as Being on Time, Electricity, Bees, Computers in Our Life, and other titles. Each unit is formed to enhance basic language skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Within the different thematic units and activities, students are encouraged to read, explain, comprehend, analyze, and join words into a short conversation.
Each unit includes the following exercises:

1. Pronunciation of words and reading text
2. Word definition
3. Comprehension and discussions
4. Analysis and composition sentences
5. Conversation
6. Writing
7. Chanting
8. Memorizing short Surah or Haddith
9. Listening and answering
10. Class 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.

Objectives of the book:

• Deepening family connection, parents’ obedience.
• Introducing animals, their different names and types.
• Knowing the advantage of Islamic greeting and its effect in the community.

Grammatical structures:

• Using the original marks (Formation).
• Knowing Al-Madd with Alf and ya’a.
• Solar Letters - Lunar letters.
• 3rd person pronoun.
• 2nd person pronoun.

The linguistic resources:

• A group of lessons about family.
• Sourat Quraish.
• Lessons about animals.
• Lesson (Islamic greeting).
• Lesson (In the name of Allah).

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
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.

Level 3 in the Afaq series builds upon the foundations laid in previous levels. Students are taught to form sentences using appropriate vocabulary. There is continuing practice with word formation. The past and present tenses are focused on and the student is taught to distinguish between different grammatical forms. Now greater emphasis is placed on sentence formation and conversational Arabic where alphabetical knowledge is reinforced and nunation (tanween) is introduced. Conversational skills are further developed using a broader range of vocabulary. Writing skills are focused upon, and Islamic poetry, hadith, and some surahs are studied.

A workbook accompanies the textbook in order to enhance comprehension and writing skills. 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, as well as masculine and feminine nouns and other grammatical concepts. Workbooks are printed on high-quality paper.