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Arabic Letters and Sounds
Arabic letter forms and vowel-mark practice, with reference pages and cut-out cards.
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Skills & scope
All 28 Arabic letters, valid joining forms and the Arabic foundations sound-pattern sequence. Practice includes short and long vowels, tanwin, sukun, shadda and eight connected words. The sound-pattern sets include practice patterns as well as words.
- Arabic letter recognition
- Right-to-left formation and joining
- Vowel marks and sound patterns
- Connected word reading
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Getting startedGetting started · Pages 1–4
The Arabic alphabetReference · Page 5
All 28 letters and their names on one reference page.
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Page 5Arabic alphabet
Letter tracingPractice · Pages 6–33
One page for each isolated letter, in the Arabic program order.
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Page 6Arabic letter ا
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Page 7Arabic letter ب
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Page 8Arabic letter ت
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Page 9Arabic letter ث
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Page 10Arabic letter ج
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Page 11Arabic letter ح
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Page 12Arabic letter خ
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Page 13Arabic letter د
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Page 14Arabic letter ذ
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Page 15Arabic letter ر
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Page 16Arabic letter ز
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Page 17Arabic letter س
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Page 18Arabic letter ش
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Page 19Arabic letter ص
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Page 20Arabic letter ض
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Page 21Arabic letter ط
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Page 22Arabic letter ظ
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Page 23Arabic letter ع
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Page 24Arabic letter غ
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Page 25Arabic letter ف
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Page 26Arabic letter ق
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Page 27Arabic letter ك
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Page 28Arabic letter ل
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Page 29Arabic letter م
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Page 30Arabic letter ن
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Page 31Arabic letter ه
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Page 32Arabic letter و
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Page 33Arabic letter ي
Joining formsPractice · Pages 34–40
Practice how letters join, including the valid forms of non-joining letters.
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Page 34Arabic joining forms: sheet 1
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Page 35Arabic joining forms: sheet 2
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Page 36Arabic joining forms: sheet 3
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Page 37Arabic joining forms: sheet 4
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Page 38Arabic joining forms: sheet 5
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Page 39Arabic joining forms: sheet 6
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Page 40Arabic joining forms: sheet 7
Short vowelsPractice · Pages 41–46
Long vowelsPractice · Pages 47–52
Practice the long a, i and u sounds.
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Page 47Long vowel: alif: practice 1
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Page 48Long vowel: alif: practice 2
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Page 49Long vowel: ya: practice 1
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Page 50Long vowel: ya: practice 2
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Page 51Long vowel: waw: practice 1
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Page 52Long vowel: waw: practice 2
TanwinPractice · Pages 53–58
Practice the three tanwin forms.
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Page 53Tanwin with fatha: practice 1
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Page 54Tanwin with fatha: practice 2
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Page 55Tanwin with kasra: practice 1
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Page 56Tanwin with kasra: practice 2
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Page 57Tanwin with damma: practice 1
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Page 58Tanwin with damma: practice 2
SukunPractice · Pages 59–60
ShaddaPractice · Pages 61–66
Practice shadda with the three short vowels.
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Page 61Shadda with fatha: practice 1
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Page 62Shadda with fatha: practice 2
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Page 63Shadda with kasra: practice 1
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Page 64Shadda with kasra: practice 2
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Page 65Shadda with damma: practice 1
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Page 66Shadda with damma: practice 2
Connected wordsPractice · Pages 67–68
Alphabet cardsCut-out cards · Pages 69–72
Sound-pattern cardsCut-out cards · Pages 73–85
Eight patterns per sheet, following the same sound sequence.
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Page 73Fatha: cards
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Page 74Kasra: cards
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Page 75Damma: cards
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Page 76Long vowel: alif: cards
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Page 77Long vowel: ya: cards
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Page 78Long vowel: waw: cards
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Page 79Tanwin with fatha: cards
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Page 80Tanwin with kasra: cards
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Page 81Tanwin with damma: cards
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Page 82Sukun: cards
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Page 83Shadda with fatha: cards
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Page 84Shadda with kasra: cards
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Page 85Shadda with damma: cards
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