Arabic Reading Club for Beginning Readers (Read! Write! Discuss!)

▬▬▬▬▬▬  ⭐Course Overview⭐ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
This ongoing class focuses on developing the reading skills of non-native Arabic speakers  in the Arabic language. These are learners who have a basic vocabulary foundation and can read simple sentences in Arabic. The course is designed for students who can recognize all Arabic letters, forms and vowels. In each class, students will have the opportunity to read stories from Levels A, B and C of the Reading A-Z series, featuring adventures of children, animals, and other fictional and non-fictional characters exploring various everyday topics. The class will be taught in both English and Modern Standard Arabic.

Throughout the course, students will improve their vocabulary and comprehension skills while also enhancing their ability to self-correct their reading mistakes. The course will cover topics such as family, home, school, the park, the zoo, friends, pets, and the store. Each class will involve letter activities, vocabulary review, story reading, comprehension, and writing. Students will interact with their classmates and instructor continuously through talking, writing, reading, and completing activities on the slides.

Students are welcome to join and leave at any time, as there is no previous information needed in order to succeed in the current week’s lesson. If you’d like to know exactly what week we are in (and that week’s topic), please send us a message to inquire.

▬▬▬▬▬▬  📚Weekly Course Examples📚 ▬▬▬▬▬▬
The first four weeks of the course will address the following topics:
⭐Week of 3/10: The Big Cat
⭐Week of 3/17: Carlos Goes to School
⭐Week of 3/24: Hamster Home
⭐Week of 3/31: Maria Goes to School

▬▬▬▬▬▬  ✨Target Student✨▬▬▬▬▬▬
This course is ideal for beginning readers who display the following skills: recognize and name letters, identify the front cover, turn pages one by one, show how text progresses left to right, top to bottom, know some sounds of frequently seen or previously taught letters, identify and produce an increasing number of sounds, particularly consonant sounds and short vowels, recognize environmental print in context, attempt to track print with their finger in books and other texts, begin to play with words, identify a rhyming pair when presented with choices, count syllables in words, and have listening comprehension that exceeds reading comprehension.

This course will use detailed pictures that add to the story, short declarative sentences, repetitive patterns, repeated vocabulary, natural, familiar language, large print, wide letter spacing, familiar concepts, and limited text per page.