Free Arabic and Quran Printables for Parents

Q: Do these replace lessons?

No. They are the record-keeping half of the job, which is the half that usually falls to a parent. The teaching half still needs somebody who can hear what the child is saying.

Nine printable sheets for families teaching a child Arabic and Quran at home, laid out in the order a child actually needs them. Every one is a plain A4 page you can download and print. There is no email box, no sign-up and no account. Two of them also come in a black-and-white edition, because a colour sheet turns into grey bands on a mono printer.

They exist because of a specific problem. Most Arabic and Quran material for children assumes a parent who reads Arabic and can tell whether what they are hearing is right. If nobody in your house reads Arabic, you are trying to supervise something you cannot check, and the usual advice to listen more and practise more does not help you. Each of these sheets turns one part of that job into something you can see: a stage with a name, a box to tick, a date to write.

Which one do you need

Start from where the child actually is, not from where the year plan says they should be. If two rows sound right, take the earlier one.

Where the child is	The sheet
Has never seen the Arabic letters, or knows a few by name only	Arabic alphabet chart
Knows some letters and you want to know what comes next, and when	Arabic at home: the first 90 days
Working through a Noorani Qaida and you cannot tell if progress is real	Noorani Qaida progress tracker
Reading from the mushaf and stopping in odd places	Quran stop signs chart
Reading fluently and now being corrected on pronunciation	Tajweed rules chart
Memorising, and you want the review load written down	Short surahs tracker
Reading is going fine and you want one small thing the whole family can do daily	Daily dua cards

The nine sheets

Stage 1. The lettersArabic alphabet chartAll twenty-eight letters with their four joined forms, so you can see why a letter your child "knows" looks unfamiliar in the middle of a word. The same page also carries a monthly progress check you can use with any teacher.Open the alphabet chart

Stage 2. The first three monthsArabic at home: the first 90 daysOne page covering the whole first term of learning to read: letters and their four forms in weeks one to three, the short vowel marks in weeks four to six, joining into words in weeks seven to nine, and first connected text in weeks ten to twelve. A tick box and a date line for each stage. Colour and black-and-white editions.Open the 90-day plan

Stage 3. The QaidaNoorani Qaida progress trackerThe Qaida broken into its actual lessons so you can mark what has been covered and what has been genuinely secured, which are not the same thing. There is a print button on the page and a two-page A4 PDF.Open the Qaida tracker

Stage 4. Reading the mushafQuran stop signs chartThe small letters above the line that tell a reader where to stop, where stopping is better, and where stopping changes the meaning. This is the first thing that confuses a child who can read the words but not the page.Open the stop signs chart

Stage 5. PronunciationTajweed rules chartThe rules a child meets first, each with what it looks like on the page and what it should sound like. Colour and black-and-white editions, so a class set does not cost a colour cartridge.Open the tajweed chart

Stage 6. MemorisingShort surahs trackerOne A4 page for the short surahs, with room to record not just what has been memorised but when it was last revised, which is the column that actually decides whether it stays.Open the surahs tracker
Stage 7. Keeping itQuran revision plannerA weekly sheet for the surahs already memorised, sorted into three groups by age, so the recent ones are heard every day and the older ones come round on a rotation instead of quietly disappearing over a term.Open the revision planner
Everyday practiceDaily dua cardsEight cards on one A4 sheet, cut out and put where the moment happens. Each one carries the Arabic, a transliteration, the meaning and the hadith or Quran reference it comes from, so a parent who does not read Arabic can still check it.Open the dua cards
Ramadan30-day Quran reading planThirty numbered nights rather than thirty dates, so it works whichever year you print it, with three lanes so the fluent reader, the child still decoding and the child who cannot read Arabic yet are all on the same sheet.Open the Ramadan plan

How to use them without turning the house into a school

The commonest mistake is printing all seven and putting them on the wall. A chart a child has stopped seeing is decoration. One sheet at a time, on the fridge or in the front of the folder, for as long as that stage lasts.

The second mistake is treating the tick box as the point. What the boxes are for is the conversation with the teacher: instead of asking how is he doing, you can ask why week six has been open for a month. That question gets a real answer.

A word on pace. The stages on these sheets are an order, not a timetable. A five or six year old who is still stumbling on the hard letters is ordinary rather than behind, and a child who spends two months on one row has not failed the sheet. Give any change about a month before you decide it is not working.

Printing them for a class or a weekend school

Print as many copies as you need, for your own family or for a class. We only ask that the sheet goes out as it is, with the academy name still on it, so that a parent who wants the rest of the set can find it.

If you are choosing between the alphabet chart and the 90-day plan for a group, take the plan. The chart shows a child what the letters are; the plan tells the adult in the room what order to teach them in, and that is usually the part that is missing.

Questions parents ask about these

Do I have to give an email address to download them?

No. There is no form, no sign-up and no account. Every sheet opens or downloads directly from its own page. We do not know who has taken one and there is no follow-up.

Can I use these if I do not read Arabic myself?

That is who they are written for. None of them asks you to judge whether a sound is correct. They ask you to record what was covered and when it was last revised, which anybody can do, and they give you the vocabulary to ask a teacher a precise question.

What size are they, and will they print at home?

A4, on an ordinary printer. Most are a single page; the Qaida tracker runs to two. The 90-day plan and the tajweed chart each have a black-and-white edition, which is the one to use if your printer is mono or you are running off a set for a class.

Which one should I start with if my child has never seen Arabic letters?

The alphabet chart, and then the 90-day plan a few weeks later. They overlap deliberately: the chart covers the letters and their forms, and the plan is what happens after that, so there is no need to print both on the same day.

Do these replace lessons?

No, and they are not built to. They are the record-keeping half of the job, which is the half that usually falls to a parent. The teaching half still needs somebody who can hear what the child is actually saying. If you want to see what that looks like, the first trial lesson is free, and there is nothing to pay and nothing to sign up to.

Will there be more of them?

Yes, and this page is where they will appear. A hifz planner aimed at parents rather than teachers is the next one.