How to teach your kids to read the Quran fluently in Arabic


Your children are going to learn the Quran at school, so why not have them do it at home as well? Many parents feel they don’t know enough Arabic to help their kids read the Quran properly, but that doesn’t mean you can’t help your child learn to read Quran for kids fluently in Arabic! In this article, I will give you the steps to take in order to teach your children how to read the Quran fluently in Arabic and successfully memorize it. You will learn why these steps work and how they can be adapted to fit different kids and situations.


Part 1: Teaching Kids Letter Sounds and Phonics


More than 50% of what makes reading and writing hard for some people is simple illiteracy. Many have a solid command of sentence structure, but don’t know how letters are supposed to sound or how words are spelled. Children especially need some basic phonics rules drilled into their heads. This will be a little boring for you (I learned them when I was about 7 or 8 and I didn’t find it fun at all), but if you can sit down with your child and go over some of these rules, they’ll make leaps and bounds in learning how to pronounce letters. There are four sounds that every letter makes: In English, vowels can either be long or short.


Part 2: Teaching Kids New Vocabulary


It’s okay if you don’t know what something means because that just provides an opportunity for some learning and good family discussion. You’ll want to know about these basic words before you delve into reading: Quran, Allah, Iman, Fatihah, and at least one word about Prophet Muhammad. In addition, it is important to know a couple of words from Surat Al-Fatihah which starts every chapter of the Quran: الحمد لله رب العالمين لا إله إلا هو له الحمد وله الكبرياء وكفى بالله شهيدا (Translation: Praise be to God, Lord of all worlds; there is no god but He; all praise and glory are His; supremely wise).


Part 3: Teaching Kids Sentence Building


Sentences are made of words. A group of words that makes sense is called a sentence. To be able to compose sentences, children should know how to put words together, i.e., they should be able to add suffixes/prefixes and change letters as required. Some examples are given below -I will go home now


-I am happy when I see my cat


-The apple I ate was sour


-I like you because you give me sweets all the time


Part 4: Deciphering Longer Sentences


You have mastered reading short sentences and words, move on to slightly longer sentences. You can practice these new sentence types by moving from left to right and top-to-bottom. The entire process of deciphering a language is known as grammar. When you are just starting out, grammar may seem overwhelming because it has many components. Instead of tackling everything at once, start with a few components and make sure that you understand them before moving on to new ones.


As you learn Quran for kids and gain confidence in your comprehension skills, challenge yourself by attempting paragraphs or passages longer than a single sentence. At first, don’t let unfamiliar vocabulary prevent you from approaching longer text; instead, look up unknown words later when reviewing what you learned while studying part 2 (pages 1–8). By understanding how to pick apart passages without all of their component parts, continue adding passages gradually until they eventually form stories or full chapters (as opposed to separate chapters) whose general meaning becomes clear. Learn Qur’an today!