Sharing stories and texts at a higher level than children can currently read is a highly effective approach.  As well as building word reading skills -  use of letter forms in different positions within a word, tanween and the connecting hamzat – it also provides the opportunity to bridge the distance between oral Arabic dialects and the written form, in both vocabulary and sentence construction.

We have begun by reconstructing the approach into Arabic so that familiar stories and verses can become the context for building literacy skills in Arabic.

Stories and non-fiction text in ‘big book’ form are a goal of this project’s work.