Assalamu alaikum, I just wanted to share with everyone a schedule that I designed myself for my kids starting at age
3 and I am very happy with the results Allhumdulillah. Through trying different things this is what I have found to work for them in order to establish the memorization skills inshaAllah. 30-40 mintues a day 5 days a week I started by going over one surah a week or if it is big for that age (example surah bayyanah) then I would make it two weeks for that particular surah. Every week there is a new surah to cover,2-3 old surat to revise, and twice a week reviewing all old surat covered so far. For the new surah: I take the number of ayat in the surah and divide them by 5 days to get how many ayat to memorize for each day. The child will read after me each ayat 20 x each (you may have to break up the ayat in 2 or 3 segments), and then all ayat (from that surah that has been covered that week) 10 times. For the old surahs: (past 2-3 weeks) The most recent surah that was just learned in the past week will be read 10 x The surah that was learned the week before last will be read 5x The surah the week before that 3x Twice a week revision: Every Monday and Wednesday I ask the child to read to me all old surat. If they get it right without any mistakes, then they only read that surah one time. If they have mistakes with one particular old surah being revised then I make the child read that surah 3 x each. Okay so if this may be hard to follow for some I will give a weeks example to make it clearer inshaAllah
This week: new surah: surah Zalzalah last weeks surah: surah Adiyat 2 week ago surah: surah Qari'ah 3 weeks ago surah: surah Takaathur Revision of all old surat:surah nas-surah Asr Saturday (day 1) Adiyat: 10 x Qari'ah: 5x Takaathur: 3x Zalzalah ayat 1: 20x Zalzalah ayat 2: 20x Zalzalah ayat 1-2: 10x Sunday (day 2) Adiyat: 10 x Qari'ah: 5x Takaathur: 3x Zalzalah ayat 3: 20x Zalzalah ayat 4: 20x Zalzalah ayat 1-4: 10x Monday (day3) Adiyat: 10 x Qari'ah: 5x Takaathur: 3x Zalzalah ayat 5: 20x Zalzalah ayat 6: 20x Zalzalah ayat 1-6: 10x surah nas-surah Asr: 3x each ( if no mistakes read 1x, if mistakes read 3x) Tuesday (day 4) Adiyat: 10 x Qari'ah: 5x Takaathur: 3x Zalzalah ayat 7: 20x Zalzalah ayat 1-7: 10x Wednesday (day 5)
Adiyat: 10 x Qari'ah: 5x Takaathur: 3x Zalzalah ayat 8: 20x Zalzalah ayat 1-8: 10x surah nas-surah Asr: 3x each ( if no mistakes read 1x, if mistakes read 3x) That is one week's example and the following week Zalzalah will be the old surah to be read 10x,Adiyat 5x,and Qariah 3x. Twice a week revision will be surah nas- surahTakaathur. I hope this can help any out there inshaAllah ta'ala and if you have any questions please let me know, insha'allah. masalama Yasmeen Assalamu alaikum, This is a method I designed for teaching the Dua'at for children starting at the age when the child is able to read and write arabic and english. (For this program ONLY but before the age of reading and writing english and arabic you can of course begin with small dua'at just through speech and memorization not writing and reading) One day a week 1 1/2 -2 hours This is what I have found and practiced to be successful mashaAllah. Every week 1-4 new dua'at depending on the length of each one for class work,and then 1-2 given for homework that must be memorized by the next week inshaAllah. Plus, every week the child must tell me every single dua'a that we have covered so far. One must note that these numbers will depend on the age. When my child was smaller around 4-5 I only gave him 1-2 dua'at but now that he is 8 i give him more and longer ones. I use the little book of dua'a and a notebook. I started from the beginning of the book and did not choose every single dua'a in that book but at least a few from every subject. So if there are many different ones for each subject I will pick the one that is suitable for the age.
I write the dua'at in the front of the notebook in arabic and then the english meaning under. I will read it to the child a few times until I think he has gotten it good and then explain it to him in english. Now of course you will have to write and explain to him in laymen terms as a lot of the words in that book are not understood by children. Then I will have the child read it back to me in arabic until he sounds correct and flowing. Then ask if he has any questions on what it means. Then he must go and memorize the classwork on his own. There is really no telling how many times he will have to read it to get it, but maybe between 30 min. -1 hour depending. After he thinks he has it he brings the notebook back to me and I must check him to see if its memorized. If so... finished and he will do the homework I assigned in the same way. If not keep reading. In the back of the notebook, just for my own convienence I made a little chart to keep track of what he is doing each week. So it will have: date/the new dua'a/homework/and what has been reviewed I have found this very helpful mashaAllah. Also every few weeks will be review or maybe once a month depending on the child's age and his memorization capability. So for that week there will be no new dua'at but only excercises in English or arabic for the MEANINGS ONLY. I may give him matching with the words and definitions, or fill in the blanks etc... in the middle of the notebook. If you follow this program your child should finish memorizing almost the entire lil book of dua'a in 6 months time inshaAllah
