Arabic is the Language of Tomorrow for Children - Pre-K and KG Levels

/pages/pre-k-2nd-level A Comprehensive Curriculum for Teaching Arabic for Children 
Philosophy of the Curriculum:

• The series encompasses all educational stages.
• It is designed according to modern global standards of quality in language teaching.
• The series provides a curriculum that equips learners with essential skills.
• It offers an engaging curriculum that appeals to 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.

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

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.