ICO Learn Arabic Student Book: Level 8, Part 1

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 to learn the Arabic language, we are pleased to offer theLearn Arabic series. It employs modern methods of teaching foreign language to successfully teach Arabic to students in K-12th grades. This series was based 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:

TheLearn Arabic series consists of textbooks, workbooks and teacher’s manuals for levels K-12th. 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:

TheStudent 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 dialogue text, expressions, 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,hadith and nasheed. The teacher books include a midterm and final test. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.

Activity Book:

The activity book simply enhances the material found within the student textbooks. It mainly concentrates 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.