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Am so excited, my son has now memorised Juz Amma, at the age of 3 years 10 months, ma sha Allah!

As for reading Quranic Arabic, we're working through the "Read" book mentioned in one of the previous posts - about to start the tajweed section iA.

Ayesha Nicole - thanks for your many, many useful posts and duas.

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Came across this - word for word translation with pictures, only a few surahs covered at the moment.  The pictures aren't always great, but its a good start.
http://thelittlestarsofislam.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/word-to-word-pictorials-of-surahs-coming-up/

Salaam Ayesha,

A couple of questions for you, if I may:

1.  Have you tried this: http://www.furqaanbookstore.com/al-qaidah-an-noraniah-electronic-education-device.html ? Looking for reviews...

2.  What is the girls' revision shcedule like?  I have been trying to get through everything Hammaad knows in around a week - fine at the moment, but as he learns more it might just take too much time.  However, as he learns more the mistakes in revision are becoming more frequent (more places where the ayat are similar so he switches between surahs).  I intend to stop and ensure the entire juz is solid before we move on, but was just looking for ideas as I put his new schedule together.

JK!

Salaam.

Yes I think your process is way more detailed - we are doing memorisation separately, so it is quicker. Plus Hammaad learns from listening to me (bedtime) and whilst quran is playing in the background. Also, I'm going through qaida, but have not started flashing any words/ayahs yet - I intend to introduce translation at that stage, and hoping it will be another way of revising the juz too.

I agree that quality is important - but although we can do mudood, ikhfa, ghunnah etc, he struggles with some of the makhraj/sifat - I think this is because of his age and we will have to keep going over things until he can master it iA. His most common mistake is saying raa like laam - I know he knows it is a raa, but he struggles to say it.  Have started him on some weekly tajweed lessons with a friend which has made a real difference - maybe its nice for him just to have a different teacher!

As for reading independently, iA it will be soon!

Keep us in your duas iA.

K x

Ws Ayesha.  Nice to hear how the girls are progressing - they are doing really well mA!

Here's an update on our progress:
Reading: I am using a slightly different qaida to noorani, but we are about to finish the equivalent of lesson 7 iA.  I have switched to teaching from the qaida (as opposed to LR) because I couldn't keep up with getting materials ready on time!  Hammaad seems to be picking things up fine, and I try to get him to read selected words form the mushaf for more practice.  Once we're through with Qaida I'd like to use to go through the suwar as you have done iA.  If you have any materials (LR files with words/ayat from suwar, even if they are without sound files) that you are happy to share - please let me know!  I tried downloading the A'laa pdf file but unfortuantely was unable to do so - the kalimah file looks excellent mA.

Memorisation: We should finish Mutaffifeen in the next few days iA.  We're aiming to complete juz amma by early September iA - and then spend some time revising the juz.

Salaam Zaku.

I have some files I can email you iA.  I have sent you a PM.

Excellent - thanks!  Will try to check them out!

Hi

We've almost finished the bob books collection and want to stock up on some good books to develop independent reading.  Any recommendations?

Thanks

Karishma

Salaam

Yes you have emailed the Othmany doc to me - my pc is in saudi so a bit limited with what I can do at the moment...don't worry about it.

Unfortunately not fluent in Arabic - pls make dua as I would love to be and one of the reasons for moving to Saudi is to facilitate that for the children iA.

What you have outlined for Fatihah sounds great iA.  For step 5 do you mean displaying a picture of the page from the mushaf? I think that's a great idea, mA.

Salaam

Yes I teach just by applying through recitation and aH Hammaad doesn't seem to have any problems at the moment.  This is how my last tajweed teacher taught us - purely through talqeen. Hammaad has always sat in my lessons since he was a baby so he is familiar with the method.  When we get to the stage of reading individual words I will try your method iA - important so they can progress to learning Quran independently iA.

Jk once again for all your input - its really useful mA.  Please keep updating us - I personally find it very useful, especially as your girls are only a few months older than my son.  May Allah make our children bearers of the Quran and grant them true understanding of His words Let Him open our hearts to His words, iA - like the boy talked about in this video iA.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/HQZONHP-YII&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/HQZONHP-YII&rel=1</a>

Hmm..can't view the fonts on the qadr file properly...

Out of interest, have you taught your girls the tajweed rules - such that they can recognise what a madd is etc?

Also, you can't use the pointer function.

See attached.

Salaam again,

Ok - all that makes sense aH!
 
I have had a look at the ppt - and see what you mean, but I don't know how to help! The only thing I could think of was to copy and paste from houseofquran directly into LR and then just type in the word box in English - I did a quick test and it works fine.  The word(s) will appear after the Arabic, in the same size, not below the picture as with your other files...

Ok found the file with the translation...sorry!

Have tried to download this file - but I only seem to keep downloading the fatihah file? And all the files I have downloaded have no translation? Not sure what I am doing wrong...