Your Way to the Quran (Workbook)

The aim is stated without hedging: a student who completes this course should be able to read the Book of Allah with little help from an instructor, and should want to keep going.

What Makes It Different from a Reader

It is worksheet-driven. A reader shows you the letters; a worksheet course makes you produce them, page after page, until reading and writing develop together rather than one lagging years behind the other.

At 170 pages it is substantial enough to carry a learner the whole distance rather than delivering him to a point where he still needs another book.

Its Wider Aim

The author's stated purpose goes past decoding: to push the boundaries of Arabic literacy and to nurture a genuine love of reading and writing in the learner. Those two are related. A student who can only sound out letters does not read for pleasure, and a student who never reads for pleasure stops improving.

Who It Is For

Children, teenagers and adults starting from the beginning. Parents teaching at home. Teachers who want a full course in one volume.

As the author puts it — is there a better gift a parent can give a child than the ability to read the Book of Allah?

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• 14 Essential Arabic Lessons (Workbook) — the same author's fourteen-lesson workbook
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• Learning Arabic Language of the Qur'an — the grammar behind what is being read