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Books by Lisan Arabi
Farm Animals is the first e-book of the series Learn Arabic through Quizzes which is designed to help learners of Arabic of all levels to enrich their vocabulary through quizzing. Farm Animals as part of this series focuses on Farm Animals and related vocabulary. Farm Animals introduces the basic information about Farm Animals: Although it is illustrated in a way that the book seems for children, the book can be practically used by adult learners to learn the alphabet, how to read and build up their vocabulary.
This book is designed to help learners of Arabic/English of all levels to enrich their vocabulary through quizzing.
Farm Animals as part of this series focuses on farm animals and related vocabulary as the major topic to introduce many generic and essential vocabulary. The book introduces the basic vocabulary about:
• name
• place
• produce
• food
• baby
Language items are introduced over two stages : one-word level and sentence/paragraph level.
The book is divided into four main chapters:
• Introduction
• Farm animals
• Animals’ Body Parts
• General Quizzes
The first chapter furnishes all the information, learners and parents/teachers need to guide the young leaners through the book.
The second chapter includes two sections that cover:
• basic information about the animals, names, home, produce, food and baby.
• easy quizzes to reinforce the learning of the language items introduced in the previous section.
The third chapter includes two sections that cover:
• The parts of the body of the animals introduced in the previous chapter.
• easy quizzes to reinforce the learning of the language items introduced in the previous section.
The fourth chapter is the quizzing wrap-up stage which provides the learner with varied quizzes to cover the previous chapters. It includes more challenging questions to make sure the learner has mastered the language items in the book in terms of reading and listening skills.
Each the second and third chapters are entailed with supportive quizzes to revise and reinforce what the learner has already learned in the chapter; these quizzes are meant to teach rather than to test. However, there is a whole chapter, the fourth one, where the quizzes become more comprehensive and more challenging.
The quizzes in the last chapter (the Quizzes Chapter) cover two language skills:
• Reading
• Listening
There are in total 53 quizzes. These quizzes are distributed as follows:
• chapter two: 8 quizzes
• chapter three: 2 quizzes
• chapter four: 19 quizzes & 24 word-search puzzles to add more fun while learning is taking place.
• The book is BILINGUAL ( Arabic & English). It can be used by English speakers to learn Arabic and by Arabic speakers to learn English and it can be used be both speakers of Arabic and English.
• Some users can use the book to learn both Arabic and English at the same time. No dictionary is required as every word of the new 110 words in the book are illustrated with an image and sound. So, speakers of other languages can easily learn all the vocabulary introduced in the book both in Arabic and in English. This book can be a great asset for:
International Schools in Arab countries
UNESCO schools
Arabic schools ( Saturday/Sunday schools) in a non-Arabic speaking countries
Nurseries.
Parents who want their children to learn Arabic in parallel with English and vice versa.
The book is available on Apple iBook Store
Animals in Arabic is a 5-book series of Lisan Arabi’s to introduce Arabic names of animals to young learners of Arabic between 4 -12. This series is very helpful for nursery and primary teachers as much as it is for parents who want their children to be familiar with Arabic words and Arabic script from an early age. The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.
The series is designed to:
- teach both reading Arabic
- introduce animals to children
- enrich vocabulary
- develop skills for young learners (recognition, colouring, identification, classification).
The series includes 5 books:
- Farm Animals (58 pages)
- Wild Animals (48 pages)
- Water Animals (48 pages)
- Birds (58 pages)
- Insects and Reptiles (48 pages)
Each animal/ word is introduced in three stages (pages):
- presentation stage (seeing and recognising)
- context stage (reading)
- awareness stage ( deconstructing and constructing)
In the context stage (I read), the child sees the same word but within context. The context is a very simple dialogue of a question and an answer:
A – What is this?
B – It is a/an …….
The teacher/ parent should read the question and answer in Arabic to the child so he/she can hear the sound and understand the process. After that, the teacher/parent can point to the image above the dialogue and ask the question to the child. The child should be given the chance and time to think and figure out what to do or answer. The child can only say the name of the animal. However, it is much better if the child uses the demonstrative (this is) with the name of the animal.
As a rewarding and reinforcing entertainment in this stage, the child colour sin the dotted word using the same colours of the coloured word. This task (I colour) is very important as it will give the child a sense of reading and writing in Arabic while they are enjoying the colouring activity. This task (I colour) will also reinforce the word shape and meaning in memory and prepares the child for the third stage.
In the awareness stage ( I deconstruct and construct), the child does two tasks: the first one is to make a decision about the correct letter order where the name of the animal is given in a box. The child has to look at the shape of the word and try to choose the set with the correct letter order. In this task, the child practices mentally deconstruct the word and compare it to the two options. Thus, they become aware of the fact that words are made of letters and that their order is essential to make the word hold particular meaning.
To wrap up the information the child has already learned, they are given two identical images of the animal; one coloured and the other is not. The child has to consider the coloured one and colour the other. This wrap-up task helps the child reflect on the word while he is enjoying the colouring activity.
These phases followed throughout the whole book. When the child has reached the end of the book they will have acquired and developed many mental skills such as: recognising the words, letters and letter orders in addition to using the language in the second stage (I read) and physical skills such as: using the hand to colour precisely, and using the eye to recognise the word and letter shapes.
The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.
Learn Arabic: Insects and Reptiles is the fifth book of Lisan Arabi’s series to introduce Arabic to young learners of Arabic of ages between 4-12. This book is very helpful for nursery and primary teachers as much as it is for parents who want their children to be familiar with Arabic words and Arabic script from an early age. All vocabulary items are introduced and illustrated with images.
Learn Arabic: Insects and Reptiles introduces the animals in a proportioned pedagogical method within an entertaining framework to make learning enjoyable as well as effective. Each animal/ word is introduced in three stages (pages):
1. Presentation stage (seeing and recognising)
2. context stage (reading)
3. awareness stage (deconstructing and constructing)
The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.
Learn Arabic: Farm Animals is the fifth book of Lisan Arabi’s series to introduce Arabic to young learners of Arabic of ages between 4-12. This book is very helpful for nursery and primary teachers as much as it is for parents who want their children to be familiar with Arabic words and Arabic script from an early age. All vocabulary items are introduced and illustrated with images.
Learn Arabic: Farm Animals introduces the animals in a proportioned pedagogical method within an entertaining framework to make learning enjoyable as well as effective. Each animal/ word is introduced in three stages (pages):
1. Presentation stage (seeing and recognising)
2. context stage (reading)
3. awareness stage (deconstructing and constructing)
The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.
Learn Arabic: Wild Animals is the Second book of Lisan Arabi’s series to introduce Arabic to young learners of Arabic of ages between 4-12. This book is very helpful for nursery and primary teachers as much as it is for parents who want their children to be familiar with Arabic words and Arabic script from an early age. All vocabulary items are introduced and illustrated with images.
Learn Arabic: Wild Animals introduces the animals in a proportioned pedagogical method within an entertaining framework to make learning enjoyable as well as effective. Each animal/ word is introduced in three stages (pages):
1. Presentation stage (seeing and recognising)
2. context stage (reading)
3. awareness stage (deconstructing and constructing)
The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.
Learn Arabic: Birds is the third book of Lisan Arabi’s series to introduce Arabic to young learners of Arabic of ages between 4-12. This book is very helpful for nursery and primary teachers as much as it is for parents who want their children to be familiar with Arabic words and Arabic script from an early age. All vocabulary items are introduced and illustrated with images.
Learn Arabic: Birds introduces birds in a proportioned pedagogical method within an entertaining framework to make learning enjoyable as well as effective. Each animal/ word is introduced in three stages (pages):
1. Presentation stage (seeing and recognising)
2. context stage (reading)
3. awareness stage (deconstructing and constructing)
The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.
Water Animals is the third book of Lisan Arabi’s series to introduce Arabic to young learners of Arabic of ages between 4-12. This book is very helpful for nursery and primary teachers as much as it is for parents who want their children to be familiar with Arabic words and Arabic script from an early age. All vocabulary items are introduced and illustrated with images.
Water Animals introduces the animals in a proportioned pedagogical method within an entertaining framework to make learning enjoyable as well as effective. Each animal/ word is introduced in three stages (pages):
1. Presentation stage (seeing and recognising)
2. context stage (reading)
3. awareness stage (deconstructing and constructing)
The series is available on Amazon. You can order it here.