Arabic is the Language of Tomorrow for Non-Native Speakers (Pre-K - 6th Level)

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A Comprehensive Curriculum for Teaching Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Philosophy of the Curriculum:

• The series encompasses all educational stages.
• It is designed according to modern global standards of quality in language teaching for nonnative speakers
• The series provides a curriculum that equips learners with essential skills.
• It offers an engaging curriculum that appeals to non-native learners
• The series provides a curriculum that does not rely on a bridging language.

Objectives and Components of the Series: The series aims to enable learners to communicate both verbally and in writing in Arabic.
It is designed for basic education, from kindergarten to grade 12, for non-native speakers.
Each stage consists of three books:

1. The Student's Book
2. The Workbook
3. The Teacher's Guide

Additionally, there are audiovisual aids, including:

• Cards and posters
• A bilingual dictionary

Time Allocation for Teaching the Series: Each stage is taught over approximately 100 sessions (1 session = 40 minutes) per level, distributed as follows:

• 75 sessions for the Student's Book.
• 25 sessions for the Workbook.

Cultural Content: The series introduces elements of Arab-Islamic culture in an appealing and engaging manner for children, while also providing aspects of general culture shared among children.

Linguistic Content:

• Introducing the Arabic phonetic system with its various features.
• Providing vocabulary sourced from a child’s lexicon.
• Equipping children with fundamental grammatical structures.

Teaching Methods: The series employs various methods, including stories, songs, dialogues, language games, and entertainment.
It contains different types of language exercises suitable for children.
Each book includes several tests to assess and measure the student’s progress in learning Arabic, with a test after every unit.

Integration of Language Skills: The series covers the four main language skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—in an integrated and balanced manner, with special attention to speaking, listening comprehension, expression, reading, and writing.

Picture Dictionary: Each book includes a picture dictionary at the end.

Vocabulary List: At the end of each book, there is a list containing all the vocabulary introduced, along with an Arabic-English dictionary for children and an English-Arabic glossary.

Preschool (Ages 4-5) and Kindergarten (Ages 5-6):
Key features of the curriculum include:

• Simplicity, gradual progression, and ease of use while engaging the child’s emotions and stimulating their imagination and creativity.
• Providing linguistic material to enable verbal communication.
• Adopting modern educational methods in teaching children.
• Training children to control their grip on the pen.
• Developing the child’s thinking skills.
• Practicing motor skills in writing.

Elementary Stage (Grades 1-6):

• Grade 1 (Level 1): Focus on reading skills through topics from the child's environment such as school, home, and garden, along with basic grammatical structures.
• Grade 2 (Level 2): Similar focus, expanding on topics from the child’s environment
• Grade 3 (Level 3): Reading skills through topics like village and city, with more complex grammatical structures.
• Grade 4 (Level 4): Reading topics like phone, sports, and doctor, along with expanded grammar.
• Grade 5 (Level 5): Topics such as the four seasons, communications, and the library, along with extended reading (activity book) and grammar focusing on singular, dual, and plural forms.
• Grade 6 (Level 6): Reading from popular stories, extended reading, and more advanced grammar (nominal and verbal sentences, nouns).

Middle School (Grades 7-9):

• Focus on reading skills through environmental topics like humans and nature, the importance of communication, and school activities.
• Extended reading (activity book) and grammar, covering topics like subject, predicate, and prepositional phrases.

High School (Grades 10-12):

• Focus on reading skills through global and humanitarian topics.
• Grammar and morphology, along with literature, rhetoric, and texts.