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Teaching Your Children Arabic, It Can Be Done! Lets Do It Together! (Video #1)

Madinah Book Reader PDF : FREE DOWNLOAD & PRINTABLE Free Flash Cards: FREE DOWNLOAD & PRINTABLE Our teaching method:  For the initial introduction,  I introduce the page to them by reading out loud as they follow along so that they can learn the pronunciation.  I then have them read each phrase or vocabulary term one by one after me.  When they are confident with the pronunciation of the words. I give them the vocabulary cards for the unit.  They will write the vocabulary words 10 times or 5 times each from Sunday through Thursday.  These words will be written while looking at the illustrated vocabulary cards. They are reading CVC words in English but not yet on the level where they can read the translation for the more difficult words. So the pictures serve as a translation for them at this age.  We do NOT return to the unit in the book until they have MEMORIZED ALL of the vocabulary. This is the MOST IMPORTANT ST...

Story Mapping

     In literature, my children have seemingly simultaneously entered into the unit on story mapping. It’s been a reoccurring topic in my 4th graders series of “ 180 Days of Reading grade 4 ” and for my 7th grader it has been a topic in “ Curtis and Hake Grammar ”. So anyway, having 8 children it is imperative that I combine what I can between my students in order to maximize the content we can cover without putting a heavy burden on our time. Literature is the perfect topic to integrate your lesson-planning because a lot of the content is covering the same topic but merely with advancements in vocabulary and depth. It leaves you some room to navigate. Because you will notice as a parent that there are some children that will absorb any content you give them, and the advanced vocabulary and deeper concepts don’t hinder them in the least. Likewise, there are students that you will see may repeatedly need revision on the same topics to build mastery. So bringing these...