ICO Learn Arabic Student Book: Level 2, Part 2

ICO Learn Arabic series 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 pronunciation2. Skills: Reading, writing, speaking, and listening3. 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 24 units: 18 basic units of new material, plus an additional 6 units for revision which appear after every 4th unit. Each basic unit contains 3 lessons of new material talks about: daily works and activities, family, relevant, and Identity, and the services of around environment, and including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. While at part 2 the lessons talks about: caring about cleaning. The book concentrates on daily activities, identity, family and relatives, society and services, health, holidays and religious occasions and hoppy and time spending. And The lessons applied through dialogue and speech skills, conversations, vocabulary and listening, grammatical structures, listening, reading, thinking, writing, and extra activities, such as selections of Qur’an, ahadith and anasheed. These textbooks also include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.
Activity Book:
The activity books simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks, where each basic unit of the student's book has 5 pages in the Activity book. They mainly concentrate on writing skills with some review of verbal skills. The book contains reading, writing sentences & filling the spaces by using pictures, making questions and sentences, dictation and matching. The book concentrates on practicing writing and enhancing what student earn from the textbook. Some of the workbook activities should be completed at home with a parent to strengthen the relationship between home and school.