Teaching Urdu

In the whole of my homeschooling experience, I find it very hard to teach Urdu. Unfortunately, there are very less resources available except text books. Children find English easier to learn because  a lot of resources available to parents and teachers. I have been trying to make Urdu a fun learning for my children by including some hands on ideas in everyday routine, but still I feel that we are not giving this subject its due importance. What your child needs is a loving, stimulating and enriching environment, with a balance of adult-led and age-appropriate resources. Adult-led activities, which can be things like stories, songs, rhymes, games, arts and crafts, and movement activities, give the child exposure to the language. But it is the interactions that take place, particularly in the child-led activities, that can really support and broaden a child’s language development, encouraging authentic and meaningful communication in context. The right conditions help children learn even more. I came up with some activities that might help you


Create Story Baskets to Encourage Child to Retell Stories. 

Create a story basket for children, read to them and encourage them to retell the story, it will increase their expression and vocabulary  

Play an I-spy Game 

Take a picture book, like 1000 WORDS AND PICTURES or another, you can ask to spy things from the pictures this will be much interesting for them to learn new words, and of course you will play in Urdu.

Sing poem to Encourage Speech.

Sing Urdu rhymes with them it will be so fun for the whole family, we normally sing poems when children do the written work that makes it less boring and tiresome.

Sort Magnetic Letters

It sounds so very simple, but sorting magnetic letters really help kids to focus on how the letters are alike, how they’re different, and what shapes they are comprised of.

Provide Listening Activities to Build Language Skills 

You can make your own audio books or you can find audio books online for listening, remember this is not meant for watching Urdu cartoons because visual graphics reduce the hearing capacity. You can find some stories at http://kids.farhathashmi.com/.


Learning using Kinetic sand

Take kinetic send in a tray and ask children to write letters on it with their fingers , you can also take play-dough for molding alphabets. 

Alphabet Lacing Cards

Take a cardboard cut it in the shapes of letters, punch holes on edges of letters let the child lace it with a ribbon or piece of yarn.

Hot Glue Letters

If you cannot find Urdu alphabet letters you can always make them with hot glue gun. Write a letter on a glossy surface and fill with silicon glue gun peel it off on drying, you can paint it later. 

Guess the Letter 

To begin, start by placing several letters in a bag. Then blindfold your child so they cannot see what is in the bag. Have your child reach into the bag and pull out one letter. Let your child use both hands to explore the letter and determine what it is.
These are fun ideas to make any language fun for children to learn. Here are some links that will help. Note: every time it wrote alphabets are meant to be Haroof e tahajee

<https://urdumom.com/>

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_DcqzicDMU>
<https://www.pinterest.com/pin/91409067414081772/?lp=true>
<http://www.beaconhousetimes.net/index.php?page_id=11&content_id=7892>

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