Madinah Arabic Reader Book 1 Flashcards

I started making these cards as we went through the first Madinah Arabic Reader book, as I thought the visual aids would be useful in terms of learning the new vocabulary and for building sentences of our own as new grammar patterns were introduced.

Alhamdulillah, after a long break (when I started we didn't have a colour printer which is why these cards are in black and white! Then for continuity's sake I continued making them in this way and colouring everything by hand) I've finally finished all the cards I wanted to make for Madinah Book 1.

Lessons 1-4

Lessons 5-7

Lessons 8-10

Here's an example of what they look like once coloured and laminated:

I chose to colour code the borders to help differentiate between the different kinds of word, thinking this would help with memory and understanding!

Red: Noun (masculine)
Pink: Noun (feminine)
Brown: Proper noun (e.g. countries)
Orange: e.g. "here", "there"
Blue: Adjective
Yellow: Preposition (requires following word to have a kasra)
Purple: Time (e.g. "now", "after")
Green: Miscellaneous (e.g. "very", "also")

I've not included the verbs mentioned in the book as I've made a separate set of verb flashcards - so will be using those alongside these.

We've found these cards useful so I'll continue making them for Madinah Book 2 - but this time I'll upload them in chapter batches as we go along rather than in bulk when we finally finish the book InshaAllah!

Arabic: A/The/This Noun + Adjective

I made this chart because I was having problems getting my head around the difference between e.g. "the apple is red", "the red apple", "this is a red apple" etc. So I made the effort to sit down and make a colour coded list of all the combinations in both masculine and feminine form.

To be honest, it was going through systematically and working the sentences out myself which really helped it to all click, and I'm sure this kind of thing already exists elsewhere... But if you want it as a reference anyway, you can download the mini poster here.

I've backed ours onto coloured paper, laminated and holepunched it to keep in our Arabic resources folder.

Arabic colours: masculine/feminine

We've been familiar with the masculine versions of the colours for a while now, through songs on YouTube and using them in context in everyday conversations, but only just learnt the feminine equivalents.

To recap this vocabulary, I created a simple table for the girls to match the masculine and feminine versions of the colours to each other. There's the opportunity to practise scissor skills to cut out the words themselves or you can prepare this in advance for them. There's also opportunity to practise reading/familiarisation with the letters and vowel sounds, or you can simply read out the words to them a few at a time to find the matching pair.

Once the girls had stuck the words in the correct places (left column for feminine, right column for masculine!), we practised making statements to describe nouns as a colour using the words around the page to help, e.g. اَلْبَيْتُ الْأحْمَر ("the red house"). All the pictures on the left are feminine nouns in Arabic and the ones on the right are masculine nouns in Arabic. Of course, feel free to edit the file to nouns your own children are familiar with instead!

You can download the resources here.