Saturday, March 9, 2013

Arabic Letters Handwriting Workbook

السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

*Post Updated!*
 
 
Also in Dutch! Download below insha'Allaah!
 
Now in French! Download the file below insha'Allaah!

This Arabic letters handwriting workbook provides children with the opportunity to shape each letter with play-doh, recognize each letter as it appears in isolation, in the middle of a word and at the end of a word. Children also practice writing each letter in each of the three above-mentioned forms. When done, children are given the opportunity to locate and identify each letter in actual words, helping to support letter recognition insha'Allaah.

The book is meant to be (but you don't have to) printed on card stock, laminated and bound so that students can use a dry-erase marker to use the workbook repeatedly for handwriting and letter formation practice (with play-doh) insha'Allaah. To keep cost down you can print the workbook on card stock and instead of laminating each page, use clear shelf liner, and then bind it.

Click on the picture for a close up view insha'Allaah
This book has a vinyl cover on both the front and back, is spiral bound, and has clear shelf liner only on the bottom half of the page where students will do their work.

To use the book in your Quraan or writing centres you can print, laminate, and bind two or three copies, provide a basket with three different colours of play-doh and put three black dry-erase markers in a cup. To avoid disagreements about who will use which colour play-doh you can buy the round dot stickers from your local dollar store and place a dot sticker that corresponds to the colour of play-doh for each book on the top right hand corner of the book cover. When students have their time at that centre the teacher can have a laminated sheet (this way you can use a dry erase marker to change the students names as needed insha'Allaah) at the centre (tapped to the table or hung on the wall at the students' eye level) that has the same colour dot and next to it a space for the student's name who will use that colour that day. Students simply look at the chart, find their name and see which colour dot is next to their name and they know which book and which colour play-doh they will use that day. So on Monday, for example, next to the red dot on the sheet is Abul Aziz's name. He will use the handwriting book with the red dot on its cover and the red play- doh to do his work insha'Allaah.

The workbook is not intended to replace direct instruction but is intended to support it. The workbook can be used to allow children extra practice or to assign homework for additional practice insha'Allaah. There are no graphics that will distract the child from the goal of producing precise formation of the letters and attending to the text.

 
Enjoy insha'Allaah!

16 comments:

  1. assalamou 'alaykoum ♥
    ma chaa allah ! jazakillahou khayran pour ce superbe support.

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    1. Waalaikum assalam wa rahmatullaah,

      Wa iyaki dear sis Ummu Karima. May Allaah accept it and make it a benefit to the Muslim children.

      Jazakillaahu khayr

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  2. Assalam u Alaikum warahmatullah,

    Another great resource!! May Allah reward you..

    Jazakillah Khayr

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    1. Waalaikum assalam wa rahmatullaah

      Alhamdulillaah. Wa iyaki wa jazakillaahu khayr dear sis Umm Salih for your comment and kind words.

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  3. Assalamu alaiki wa rahmatulahi wa barakatu dear sister,

    How are you and your loved ones doing? Maa shaa Allah you are doing fine with your materials here, barakAllahu feeki. I would love to have this workbook in Dutch, so insha Allah I am the first with this request and I can sent the text to you within a week!

    Much love from your sister in Holland, Maryam Umm Donya.

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    1. Waalaikum assalam wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuh,

      Sis Umm Donya it is so very nice to hear from you again. Insha'Allaah you and your family are doing very well. Alhamdulillaah all is well here. Sis, this response is late but alhamdulillaah a sister supplied the Dutch translation. Insha'Allaah your children will enjoy and benefit from the book.

      Take care in Holland! *smile*

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  4. JazakAllah khayr for this wonderful resource. I will be using it in class with my 4-5 year olds. Just perfect for their current level mashaAllah

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    1. Assalamu aliakum

      sis Raisingsahabas,

      Wa iyaki. Insha'Allaah, your class enjoys and benefits from the book. Alhamdulillaah, it has been very helpful in the classroom and the improvement in handwriting was very rapid alhamdulillaah.

      Jazakillaahu khayr

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  5. Assalaamu Alaikum Ukhtee, Maashaa Allaah great, when you do have the time please consider doing the part two of this by including 3 letters writing practice and more, at the moment am really finding it difficult to get any resource for writing practice for Maimoonah!! your help is always appreciated. Baarakallaah Feekum for all your resources ukhtee, just downloading all what I missed. They seem so wonderful, waiting to print them oput and include in our study soon Inshaa Allaah.

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    1. Waalaikum assalam wa rahmatullaahi wa barakatuh,

      Ah! Here is our dear sis Umm Maimoonah! It is so nice to see you blogging again dear sis. Please pass Maimoonah my salam and love for the sake of Allaah.

      Sis, you are trying to give me work?....lol.

      Insha'Allaah, I will see if this is possible - maybe when the school year finishes up...but that may be too late sah? Tayyib, I will try to see if I can do this request bit by bit until it is complete biithnillaah.

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  6. Assalamu aliakum

    Is this for 24mths? As my son has fallen behind when coming to write he just does marking-making but this looks to complicated for him.

    Jzkhair

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    1. Waalaikum assalam wa rahmatullaah

      Sis Ruj KU,

      No, this book is not for children that young. Insha'Allaah, this will be helpful when plotting/observing/tracking your son's writing progress:

      19 to 25 months
      Your toddler's scribbles will start taking discernible shape now, though he doesn't yet form letters and numbers — he can't hold a writing implement steadily enough yet for that. But he's become enthralled by anything he can draw with — crayons, pens, and colored pencils. Beware, this is prime time for crayon scribbles on the wall. And he's probably starting to spend longer on each individual drawing now, covering more of the paper rather than making a single swirl. Draw a single line and he can easily imitate it, though it may not be very straight.

      Source: http://www.babycenter.com/0_toddler-milestone-writing-and-drawing_11744.bc

      Jazakillaahu khyar

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  7. Assalamu alaykum dear sister, I am sending this message to you Notifer a mistranslation of the French version of the copybook of Arabic letters.
    If you are interested, I am ready to correct them.
    Thank you for your work and sharing

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    1. Waalaikum assalam wa rahmatullah

      Jazakillaahu khayr sis Oumchahidmouhammad for your comment. Dear sis, are you referring to the book in the post where it says if someone will be kind enough to look at the file and make the corrections?

      If so, alhamdulillaah one of our dear sisters sent me the corrections. The corrected book can be found in this post: http://amuslimchildisborn.blogspot.ca/2013/03/arabic-letters-handwriting-workbook-now_16.html

      If you are referring to the book in the post that I just provided the link to then it may very well be that I made an error when inserting the text.

      If so, please contact me using the "Contact Me" button on the right hand side of the page and the corrections will be made.

      Barak Allaahu feki for taking the time to assist!

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  8. Assalaamu 'alaykum wa rahmat Allaah wa barakatuh

    Mashaa' Allaah.. Amazing umm.. We love it very much and very help us. jazaaki Allaah khayran wa baaraka Allaahu fiiky..

    = Umm Yahya from Indonesia =

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  9. Assalaamu 'alaykum wa rahmat Allaah wa barakatuh! djazaki Llahu hairan!

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