styles and keyboard
Recognise familiar print across fonts and understand handwriting styles.
About this unit
Recognise known words in other print styles, and type Arabic letters.
- Naskh and Kufi-inspired print change curves and proportions; the letters and dots stay the same.
- Type the plain letters; the font joins them for you.
- Vowel marks are separate keys and are not needed for normal print.
Read the examples
Tap a card and listen. Try saying it too.
Words to read
كتاب
bookkitābسلام
hello / peacesalām
باب
doorbābReading tips
The usual course cards use a clear modern print font. Here known words appear in Naskh and in Kufi-inspired print, with different curves, spacing and proportions. Follow the familiar letter shapes and dots. Ruqʿa is common in everyday handwriting; it is background for later reading beyond these print samples.
Use the standard Arabic keyboard or course tiles. Enter logical letters and let the font join them. ا د ذ ر ز و never join to the next letter. Optional vowel marks are separate tiles; they are not required when the task asks for normal unmarked print.
Reading practice
Read with support
Match the words to their pictures.
Read without a sound cue
Match the words to their pictures.
Sound to spelling
Listen. Choose the spelling.
Spelling to sound
Read the word. Choose its sound.
Sound to spelling
Listen. Choose the spelling.
Read and decide
Recognise the familiar word in Naskh print.
Read and decide
Recognise a known word in Kufi-inspired print.
Build the word
Listen and build the word in typing order.
Build the word
Listen and build the word in typing order.
Recall the spelling
Listen and build the word without its picture.
Build the word
Listen and build the word in typing order.
Recall the spelling
Listen and build the word without its picture.
Finish practice to save this unit.
You can read and write this
Recognise familiar print across fonts and understand handwriting styles.
كتاب
bookسلام
hello / peaceباب
doorUse a Arabic keyboard
Standard Arabic keyboard or course tiles. Enter logical letters; the font shapes joins. Numbers retain normal digit order. Optional vowel marks are separate inputs.
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