I Learn Arabic Simplified Curriculum Teacher Case: Level 1 أتعلم العربية المنهج الميسر حقيبة المعلم

This series provides a new, integrated approach for teaching Arabic to non-native speakers and covers these educational levels:

• Pre-K 1 level, starting from 3 years old
• Pre-K 2 level for 4-5 year-old
• and KG 3 level for 5-6 year-old.

This series presents the Arabic language clearly and inclusively to meet the needs of Western learners.

The curriculum sees language as both a general skill and a set of specific actions a child should to learn through communication, discovery, realization, and then application. It takes a systematic, three-part approach. Each part has certain objectives, enabling the learner to generate language accurately in a variety of modern ways. The system takes into account these three elements:

• Linguistic competence: this includes the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing; and the three elements of language: phonetic sounds, vocabulary and grammatical structures.
• Communicative competence: the ability to communicate with the people of language and writing words.
• Cultural competence: looks at patterns of the Arab culture in an engaging and exciting manner for children in this age-level, helping Western children connect with their Arabic speaking peers in other parts of the world.

This series concentrates on classic Arabic, without using spoken dialects. The curriculum uses guided-art methods and techniques (recommended by experts in foreign-language instruction), and takes into account the unique nature of the Arabic language and its distinct characteristics. Supplemental audio CD is sold separately.

1. Student Text: The student text is the first step of the I Love Arabic series (beginning at 6 years of age). The supplemental materials include a comprehensive workbook, a handwriting book, and a teacher case. The text is comprised of 28 units, discussing the 28 letters of the Arabic alphabet. Each unit is divided accordingly:
   • Reading Dialogue: Simple and short passages covering sounds, vocabulary, expressions, and syntactical structures
   • Conversation: Conversational exercises encouraging students to participate in classroom activities, use the material in dialogues, and ultimately become fluent speakers
   • Sounds: Sounds are introduced one by one to help students differentiate similar appearances or sounds
   • Vocabulary: Words appear in reading dialogues and are combined with graphics to further student understanding and sensory perception
2. Workbook: The exercises include the following:
   • Listening Comprehension: Exercises aimed at determining the level of children’s comprehension of new vocabulary and expressions
   • Letter Identification: Children show that they recognize a named letter by circling it
   • Writing: Students practice writing letters and joining them into words, with illustrations to help students to visualize the words
   • Reading: Students read new letters, then words, then expressions
   • Vocabulary: New vocabulary is listed to help with student memorization
   • Illustrated Dictionary: Includes word sets found throughout the lessons for easy memorization
3. The Handwriting Book allows students to practice writing Arabic letters, words, and then expressions.
4. The Teacher Case consists of the Teacher Guide (tips on efficient teaching practices), posters that can be used as classroom visual aids, and audio tapes.

This Teacher Case Consists of:

1. One Teacher Guide: Tips on efficient teaching practices for books.
2. 28 Posters to be used as classroom visual aids (Each poster size: 13” x 18”).
3. 680 cards (Each card size 4” x 6”)