la arabic yes book 03 unit 02 fathah


Lesson 1: The Sound of Fathah .................................................................. 5

Lesson Plan ............................................................................................ 5

Review .................................................................................................... 6

Learn: Sounds of Fathah ......................................................................... 7

Activity 1-1: Sort the Sounds ................................................................ 8

Activity 1-2: “Who” Said That? ............................................................. 9

Activity 1-3: Dictation ......................................................................... 10

Lesson 2: Reading with Fathah ................................................................. 11

Lesson Plan .......................................................................................... 11

Review .................................................................................................. 12

Learn ..................................................................................................... 13

Activity 1: Bang! ................................................................................. 16

Lesson 3: Grammar: Past tense, singular verb ......................................... 17

Lesson Plan .......................................................................................... 17

Review .................................................................................................. 18

Learn ..................................................................................................... 19

Study/Drill .......................................................................................... 20

Activity 3-1: Charades ........................................................................ 21

Activity 3-2—Cover Up! ...................................................................... 22

Wrap Up ................................................................................................ 23

Lesson 4: Reinforcement Lesson .............................................................. 25

Lesson Plan .......................................................................................... 25


Review .................................................................................................. 26

Activity 4-1: Muhammad’s Day ........................................................... 27

4-2: What Did He Do? ........................................................................ 28

Dictation............................................................................................. 29

Wrap Up ............................................................................................ 30

Unit Test ............................................................................................ 31

Appendix............................................................................................ 32


Unit 2: The Short Vowel Fathah

Unit Goals:

1. To learn the sound of the short vowel fathah with all the letters of the

alphabet.

2. To read words with fathahs as the only vowel.

3. To write words with fathahs only (from memory)

4. To learn that 3 letter words with fathahs only are 3rd person, male

past tense verbs.

5. To learn the meanings of 12 common verbs 3rd person, male past

tense verbs.


Lesson 1: The Sound of Fathah

Teacher Pre-Preparation:

1. If desired, cut the Learn section table into “6 column” strips for drills.

2. Cut out Sorting Board and Cards from Learn section and make a file

folder/pocket activity.

Lesson Plan

� Do Review

� Do Learn section

� Do Activity 1-1: Sort

� Do Activity 1-2: “Who” Said That?

� Do Activity 1-3: Dictation

� Homework:

� Sounds of Fathah Reading Drill: Take the cards from the

sorting activity and play “Bang!” with student or student just

pulls a card from the pouch and says the sound.

� Sounds of Fathah Writing Practice. Teacher/parent pulls a

card from sorting activity from pouch, says the sound and

student writes.

� If student need reinforcement of writing connected letter forms,

let him/her practice writing the all the forms of the letters found

in the box in section 2 of the Review section.


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Review

Alphabet Action

1. How many letters are there in the Arabic alphabet? Recite the

alphabet in order.

2. Name the letters in the box and tell what position they would be in a

word (i.e. beginning, middle, end).

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3. Tell what letter comes after each letter in the box above.

4. Name the letters in the following words:

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Vowel Review

How many short vowels

are there in Arabic?

Name them. Write each

one in the box.


Learn: Sounds of Fathah

In this lesson, insha Allah, we learn the sounds of the short vowel fathah.

On certain letters, it makes one sound, on others, it makes a different

sound.

Listen to your teacher say each letter with fathah. Repeat after your

teacher. (Teacher: Repeat each row several times before moving to next)

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Activity 1-1: Sort the Sounds

Sort the letters by the sounds that fathah makes when written over them.

Sounds like “a” in apple*

Sound like “o” in octopus*

*Approximations


Activity 1-2: “Who” Said That?

Circle the letter in each group of three, that made each sound that your

teacher says.

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activity. You may want student to point at the letter during a first drill and then circle the letters during a

second drill to provide for more practice with different letters. Or you can laminate to make a reusable

activity. Alternatively, cut into groups of threes to make activity cards.

© 2009 Talibiddeen Jr. Arabic YES! Book: 3 Reading Unit: 2: The Short Vowel Fathah Page

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Activity 1-3: Dictation

Write the letter with fathah that your teacher says the sound for.

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Teacher: Arbitrarily pick letters for student to write; particularly using letters you know student has a

problem with writing or identifying. Again, you may want to laminate to use again. Place this in the Arabic

Center after this lesson in a section called “Dictation Station.”


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Lesson 2: Reading with Fathah

Lesson Plan

� Do Review

� Do Learn Section

� Do Activity 2-1: Bang! (Reading Practice)

� Wrap Up

� Homework:

� Reading Drill 2-2 in Arabic Center.

� Learn section squares from Lesson 1


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Review

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3. Tell what letter comes before each letter in the box above.


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Vowel Review

How many short vowels

are there in Arabic?

Name them. Write each

one in the box.


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Learn

Now, insha Allah, in this lesson, we learn how to read words that have the

vowel fathah in them.

We are going to start off reading one letter in a 3 letter word and the fathah

over it. Then, we’ll add the next letter, and then the last letter.

Optional: Before (or after) reading, name the letters in each 3 letter word.

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Cut along the dotted lines to make reading cards.

Sometimes student may prefer to read from these than a book page.


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Activity 1: Bang!

Cut out the following cards. Place in a container. Without looking, pull out a

card and read it. If you read the word correctly, pull another card and read

it. Keep going until you have read all the cards. If you get a Bang! card, you

must put one card back (and the Bang! card!) and pick again.

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Lesson 3: Grammar: Past tense, singular verb

Lesson Plan

� Do Review section

� Do Learn section

� Do Study/Drill activity

� Do activity 3-1: Charades

� Do activity 3-2: Cover Up!

� Wrap Up

� Homework:

� Reading Speed Drill 2-2

� Vocabulary Timed Drill

� Pyramid Writing

� Learn section squares from Lesson 1


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Review


alphabet in order.


word (i.e. beginning, middle, end). Next, tell what letter comes before

each letter.

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4. Read the following words

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Learn

You have learned to read three letter words whose only vowel is the fathah,

such as:

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When you have words such as these (3 letters, only fathahs), these words

tell us three things:

1. They are verbs (words that show action) -- The word for verb in

Arabic is fi’l.

2. Tell us that a male or “it” did something

3. Tell us that the action was already done (past)

So when you see words like these, even if you don’t know what they

mean, you know that a male person (or it) did something already.

So let’s learn the meanings of some verbs like these:

Example:

�� This words means “he wrote.”

In this lesson, you will learn the meanings of 12 of these action words or

verbs


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Study/Drill

Review the following table. Then do the drills below.

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he went he gathered he found

Meaning Drill:

(Using only one row a time): Find and read the word for ‘he…..”

Repeat this drill for each row several times

Review Drill: Read the word, say the letters in the word


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Teacher Tip: You may want to cut the table up into three column boxes first, then do the drills. Student

can then only focus on a set of three words at a time instead of the whole page.

Activity 3-1: Charades

1. Watch your teacher perform certain actions. Name the verb in Arabic

that fits what your teacher did, remembering that the verbs really

mean “ a he” already did something.

2. Cut out the verbs cards below. Scramble them up. Pick a card. Read

it and perform the action on the card for others to guess,

remembering again that the verbs really mean “a he” already did

something.

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Activity 3-2—Cover Up!

Game 1: Your teacher will call out a word in Arabic. Using 12 objects

as markers, place a marker over the word that is called out.

Game 2: Your teacher will call out a word in English. Using the

objects, cover the Arabic word for what was called out.

Games are finished when all squares are covered.

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corresponding word.


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Wrap Up

1. Tell three things that a three letter word with only fathahs tells us

about the word.

2. Read the words from the table/cards in the Learn section.

3. Your teacher will call out a verb in English, tell what it is in Arabic;

your teacher will call out a word in Arabic, tell what it is in English.


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Pyramid Writing

Write the words from this lesson pyramid style. Write the first letter on the

first line. On the second line, write the second letter of the word. Finally, on

the third line, write the whole word. Repeat several times with each word.

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Do this activity on the board or in your notebook.


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Lesson 4: Reinforcement Lesson

Lesson Plan

� Do Review

� Do Study/Drill Activity from lesson 3.

� Do activity 4-1: Muhammad’s Day

� Do activity 4-2: What Did He Do?

� Dictation (words from lesson 3)

� Wrap Up

� Homework:

� Alphabetize the words (for older students)

� Reading Speed Drill 2-2

� Writing Speed Drill

� Vocabulary Speed Drill

� Learn section squares from lesson 1


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Review


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Activity 4-1: Muhammad’s Day

Read/listen to the following story. Write the underlined verbs in Arabic

as they appear in the story.

Muhammad’s Day

Muhammad woke up. He washed his face. Then he ate breakfast.

He gathered his books and he left for school. He carried his books in

his backpack. He entered his class and he sat down. He opened his

desk and put his books inside. In school he studied his lesson. He

wrote in his notebook. After school, he went home. He found his

mother in the kitchen cooking dinner.

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4-2: What Did He Do?

Read/listen to the clue, write the word in Arabic to match.

1. Ahmed did this with his breakfast.

2. Muhammad did this with his face.

3. Basheer did this with a pencil.

4. Ali did this with the door.

5. Write the two words that tell what Umar did when he

left for school.

6. What Musa did with the toys on the floor.

7. Jafaar did this with a chair.

8. Isa put his books in his backpack and did this.

9. Ismaeel did this to the house when he came home.

10. Yusuf did this when he looked down and

discovered a penny on the ground.


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Dictation

Your teacher will dictate words to you from lesson 3. Write them.

Your teacher will dictate an English phrase to you. Write the verb in

Arabic.


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Wrap Up

1. Tell three things that a three letter word with only fathahs tells us

about the word.

2. Read the words from the table/cards in the Learn section of

Lesson 3.

Based upon the dictation drill and wrap up section above, determine

whether student has mastered the unit objectives. If not, use

subsequent class time to review through the reading and writing drills,

and games and activities already presented or introduce new games

to practice the material. It’s best not to move on until student has

truly mastered the material.


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Unit Test

1. Read all the squares from Lesson 1’s Learn Section. (Say the sounds

of each letter with fathah. (28 points)

2. Read the words from Lesson 2’s Bang! activity.(27 points)

3. Vocabulary. Either dictate the English phrase for the verbs to student

and have him/her write or do a matching activity (write English and

Arabic on board and have student match (or make this activity ahead

of time) (12 points)

Total Points Possible: 67 Student’s Score:___________


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Appendix


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Reading Drill 2-2 (after Lesson 2) – use in Daily Practice File Folder

See how fast you can read the words.

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recording sheet. Practice reading the words daily, insha Allah.


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Vocabulary Timed Drill

• Write the correct Arabic word under the English word.

• See how long it takes you to complete the page.

• Record your time on the board. Try at least 5 times if time allows.

he wrote he ate he washed he sat

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he left he went he carried he sat

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he studied he wrote he entered he opened

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he gathered he found he washed he ate

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he opened he left he went he found

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he sat he wrote he washed he carried

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Let student use a study sheet, if necessary during the drill.


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Writing Speed Drills Page 1 of 3

How many times can you NEATLY write each word in 30 seconds*?

Do one word (column) per each 30 seconds only

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