ICO Learn Arabic Workbook Level 4, Part 1

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 third unit. Each basic unit contains 4 lessons of new material, including dialog text, expressions, and vocabulary, and communication exercises. each lessons applied through Dialogue and speech skills, vocabulary, listening, grammatical structure, Qur'an and Haddith or Nasheeds. The teacher books also include a midterm and final test, where they can print and dispense the test for student. Answer keys can be found in the teacher's manuals.

Activity Book:

These 46 pages’ activity Book simply enhance the material found within the student textbooks, whereas Student's Textbook aims to present the basic factors for the Language and its function. 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.