In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful.

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Tips
For Parents
By Dr. Mamdouh N. Mohamed Educational
Consultant At American Open University
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• Begin when your kid is newly born. Do not wait.

Instead of using songs, recite the last 3 suras.

• Kids love to hear something before sleeping.

• This would tune their ears to Arabic.

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• At the age of 2-3, begin with stories with 1-2
  words a page.

Pictorial stories with one word or 2 words per
page.

• Read the story for them.
• Make it funny.

• One story per night.
• Repeat it 2-3 times per week.

2-3 stories per week.
Kids do not read, they rehearse.
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• More readings.

Select suras with tangible meanings.
The elephant, the Flame, The Mercifull
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• Focus on memorization.

Kids memorize very quickly even if they do not
understand.
This improves their pronunciation and enhances
their memories.
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Use kids rooms to put some vocabulary on the
walls.

• Use pictures beside words.
• Take pictures out.
• Change words from time to time.
• Write names of items in Arabic.
• Keep them for long times.

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• Use games and fun.

Point to things. Count items. Pantomime Exercises
and sports
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• Let kids tell you some riddles, jokes, anecdotes,
  or stories in Arabic.

Start with the ones they knew.
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• Expose them to kids programs in Arabic.

• Let them spend some times with Arabian families.

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• Insist on speaking Arabic at home, on phones,
  with visitors.

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• Ask your old kid to make Azan at home.
• Train the older one to lead the prayer.

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• Short activity after morning prayer.

All family members sit in a circle to read 2-3
lines from Quran every member.

• Increase the number of lines as your kids
  improve.

• Never quite this tradition.

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• Keep your kid reading one story per night. Do not
  miss a single night. Only weekends.

You need to tune your ears, so listen first.

• Select stories that match their mental age.

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• Let them write one page per night.

Reading is a different skill from writing.

• Make their writing a quality work not a quantity
  work.

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• Send your kids back home for a long time at the
  age of 5-6.
• Then after that once a year .

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• Memorizing the Quran should never stop at any
  time or for any reason.

Grammar is knowing about the language not
learning the language.
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• Should we have 2 separate Arabic classes at
  Islamic schools?

This only apply to Arabic classes not the whole
curricula.
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• Assign specific times for studying Arabic.

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• Never teach grammar before 8 years.

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• Encourage kids to listen to news

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• Insist on speaking STANDARD Arabic at home not
  your dialect, please, please, please.

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• When you teach words pay attention on long
  vowels.

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• When teaching alphabet, teach letters in similar
  groups not necessarily in order.

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• When teaching alphabet, teach letters in words
  that are already known.

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• Teach words (nouns) with their plurals.

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• After teaching the alphabet, start teaching
  guided composition gradually
• Fill in the blanks
• Matching
• Sentence completion
• Adding words to the sentence
• Writing similar sentences
• Writing paragraphs

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• Teach longer chapters in the Quran reading and
  meaning

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