The Story of the Kicking Letters for kids, from your website (Belaraby Apps ), is one of our educational stories about the Arabic alphabet for children. It helps little ones broaden their horizons and learn the language with ease.
It builds the child’s awareness of how letters look in different positions within a word and teaches them which letters do not join the letter that follows, through an illustrated story from the Hekayat Belaraby app.
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Educational stories about the Arabic alphabet for kids
The kindergarten years are the right time to start teaching your child the Arabic letters, and this stage continues up through the first grade of primary school.
During kindergarten, the child connects the letter shown to them — whose sound they hear from their teacher — with how it looks, and with the familiar words they hear around them.
Then, by the age of five, the child reaches a point where they can write the letter, recognize its sound, and identify the words that contain it.
Learning through stories, or through a short story for kids about the letters, makes the whole process more effective and far easier. Here we present
light, simple educational stories about the Arabic alphabet for children, so that the child learns from each story a particular feature of the Arabic letters — getting to know the non-joining (or “proud”) letters from
The Story of the Kicking Letters.
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How do you teach children the Arabic letters?
At this stage, the teacher or parents should encourage the child and teach them the letters through fun activities that draw them toward learning, such as using:
- Games that train the child to recognize the letters.
- Colors to teach the child the Arabic letters.
- Songs about the letters.
- Modeling clay, to show the child the shapes of the letters by sculpting them.
- Play blocks featuring the Arabic letters.
- Illustrated letter stories, so the child learns the letter and its shape through a story-based scenario that captivates them and makes the shape of the letter familiar — purposeful and rewarding learning.
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Explaining the kicking letters to kids
The non-joining letters are the letters that do not connect to any letter that comes after them within a word. There are six (6) of them: أ (alif), د (daal), ذ (dhaal), ر (raa), ز (zaay), and و (waaw).
We will present a story to explain these letters to children so they can learn to write correctly.
Children must be trained to write these letters connected to a preceding letter, with another letter following. For example:
– يد (yad — hand)
– درس (dars — lesson)
Notice that in the word يد (yad) the letter daal joined what came before it, but in the word درس (dars) it could not join the letter raa, because raa is one of the non-joining letters — and the same applies to the rest of these letters.
An illustrative example:
سرور (suroor — joy) – حروف (huroof — letters) – مغرور (maghroor — conceited) – أشجار (ashjaar — trees)
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The Story of the Kicking Letters
Teacher Huwaida came into her classroom to begin the Arabic lesson and greeted her pupils warmly.
She found that Deema was not at her desk and that Arwa was not sitting beside her. Surprised, she said: “Why, my dears, are you not in your seats next to one another?”
Deema replied: “I’m not speaking to Arwa.”
Arwa flared up and said: “No, it’s me who doesn’t want to talk to her.”
Teacher Huwaida fell silent for a moment, then Nada said: “Teacher, it’s not only Deema and Arwa — it’s also Dharwa and Walaa,
and Rahma and Zainab.”
The teacher said: “All right — today’s lesson will be out in the school yard, so we can tell a simple story about the proud friends.”
The girls got ready for the story and cried out: “Hooraaay, story time!”
The teacher said: “Let’s line up and hold each other’s hands, just the way you were seated in the classroom.”
So whenever two friends were quarreling, they let go of each other’s hands.
Arwa held the hand of the girl before her but did not hold Deema’s hand.
Likewise, Dharwa did not hold Walaa’s hand, and Rahma did not hold Zainab’s hand either.
And they stood in the yard in exactly the same arrangement.
The teacher said: “While you stand here, I will tell you about the proud friends.”
And she stood in the gaps between the quarreling girls.
The girls looked at her: “And what is the story, dear teacher?”
She said: “Arwa, Deema, Dharwa, Walaa, Zainab, and Rahma are the subject of today’s lesson.
They are the ones who will explain to us the story of the proud friends.”
The girls answered: “How?”
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The Story of the Kicking Letters for kids — written
The teacher said: “There are six letters, and the names of my lovely girls begin with them.
Those letters are proud — they do not reach out a hand to the one behind them, just like ….” And the teacher paused.
Amna said: “Do you mean the kicking letters — أ (alif), د (daal), ذ (dhaal), ر (raa), ز (zaay), و (waaw)?”
She answered: “Well done, Amna — and they are the very same letters that the lovely girls’ names begin with.”
The girls felt shy and asked: “And what is their situation?”
The teacher said: “They are letters separated from what comes after them, joined to what comes before them;
but the separation of those letters leaves them alone.”
Deema said: “But I have other friends.”
The teacher said: “Every friend has a flavor and a fingerprint that no one else can replace — just like the letters: each letter has its own qualities, shape, and distinctive rule.
The kicking letters are letters that have no hand to reach out to the one behind them.
But you, my dears, do have a hand — so come, let’s complete the line.”
Zainab reached out her hand to Rahma.
And here Dharwa called out to Walaa.
As for Arwa, she said: “Our noble Prophet forbade us from quarreling.”
The teacher said: “Well done — a Muslim is to a Muslim like a solid building. Come, let’s finish the lesson and bring out the letter cards.”
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What we learn from the story
- Every letter has its own shape, rule, and distinctive features.
- The kicking letters are six: أ (alif), د (daal), ذ (dhaal), ر (raa), ز (zaay), و (waaw).
- Love and cooperation between friends.
- Respecting and loving your teacher.
- Avoiding quarrels, for they are not part of the character our pure faith calls for.
- The teacher’s clever idea of teaching the girls a lesson through a story and teaching them the proud letters in a hands-on way.
- The importance of the teacher’s role in our lives.
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A song about the naughty (kicking) letters
Six kicking letters are we
Whoever comes before us ** welcome among us
They run and take our hand ** and we clasp our hands with theirs
But whoever comes after us ** has nothing to do with us
We kick them away with our feet ** and they move far from us
Alif – Daal – Dhaal – Raa – Zaay – Waaw
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The song of the kicking letters — written
Oh my naughty letters ** always letting go of my hand
You are just six ** أ – د – ذ – ر – ز – و
This means that the naughty letters are six of the Arabic letters — the letters that do accept joining to the letters that come before them
but do not accept joining to the letters that come after them. For example:
In the word أحمد (Ahmad), the letter daal at the end of the word is one of the naughty letters: it accepts joining to the letters before it but does not accept joining to
the letters after it. In the word دمية (dumya — doll), the letter daal comes at the start of the word and did not join the letter after it.
In the word ذرة (dharra — atom), the letter dhaal comes at the start of the word and did not join the letter after it. In the word ولد (walad — boy), two of the naughty letters appear — the letter waaw
and the letter daal — and we notice that neither of these two naughty letters joined any letter that came after it. In the word زرع (zar’ — planting), the letter zaay comes at the beginning of the word and did not accept joining to the letter after it. In the word رمان (rummaan — pomegranate), the letter raa comes at the start of the word and did not join the letter after it. And in the word ورود (wuroud — roses), all of them are naughty letters, none of which accepted joining to any letter that came after it.
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Stories for teaching the short vowels to kids — the kasra, with pictures
Through a story, learn the three short vowels (the fatha, the damma, and the kasra).
Answer your child’s questions in a hands-on way with an illustrated story about the short vowels — and today, the kasra: how a letter carrying a kasra is pronounced,
as in إِبرة (ibra — needle), إِمام (imaam — imam), إِناء (inaa’ — vessel).
The Story of the Letter Accident — a lovely story about the kicking letters
The kicking letters with pictures for kids, explaining the concept of a non-joining letter,
so the child learns what the non-joining letters are and the rule that governs them, in order to write correctly,
through the illustrated story about the naughty letters.
An illustrated story about the fatha for kids — teaching the short vowels to children
Educational stories — a story about one of the three short vowels in Arabic,
with pictures: the story of the fatha.
Educational stories about the Arabic alphabet — the damma, illustrated for kids
A story about one of the three short vowels in Arabic,
with pictures: the story of the damma.
For parents and teachers in kindergartens and schools …
Here is a series of purposeful stories for children to support a child’s behavior, reinforce their positive conduct, and teach children about the world around them. Read them to your child on the Hekayat Belaraby app.
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