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Arabic · Grade 1

Joining Rules and Short Vowels

Learners crack the code of written Arabic. They learn which six letters never join the letter after them, read the three short vowels and sukun to blend syllables, tell short vowels from long ones, hear the doubling sign shadda, and read the tanwin endings on nouns. By the end they can sound out fully vocalized words.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 90 minutes
  • Joining and vowels check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Join letters correctly, knowing that ا د ذ ر ز و never join the following letter, that لا is the joined form of ل + ا, and count the separate pieces of a word.
  • Read the short vowels fatha, kasra and damma and the sukun, and blend them into syllables and short words such as دَرَسَ and قَلْبٌ.
  • Tell short vowels from long vowels (ا و ي) and read shadda as a doubled consonant (دَرَسَ / دَرَّسَ).
  • Recognise the tanwin endings ـٌ ـٍ ـً (-un, -in, -an) and the tied t ة at the end of nouns, and read whole vocalized words.

Lessons

  1. Which letters join? 5 steps2 practiceabout 22 min
  2. Short vowels and sukun 6 steps4 practiceabout 24 min
  3. Long vowels and shadda 5 steps4 practiceabout 22 min
  4. Word endings: tanwin and ة 5 steps3 practiceabout 22 min
  5. Joining and vowels check 9 questions at the end

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