Animated stories launched online to teach children Arabic

Preschoolers and primary school students can enhance their Arabic language learning through animated stories launched on Madrasa e-learning platform. 

The videos live on the newly-established ‘Madrasa Stories’ platform aim to engage kindergarten children to students aged 12 in learning Arabic through creative animated characters and educational songs during the summer holidays. 

The interactive high-tech digital content, which complements the latest accredited curricula, seeks to spark children’s imagination, promote self-learning and boost children’s Arabic reading, writing and conversational skills. 

 

Since December 2019, Madrasa e-learning platform added Arabic language video lessons to its library of over 5,000 Arabized educational videos in math and science to students from kindergarten to grade 12. 

 

In collaboration with children books’ publishing houses, the team behind Madrasa is currently working to produce engaging animated stories of Arabic language lessons targeting kindergarten and primary school students. 

 

In the first phase, 50 statically animated stories have now gone live on:  https://stories.madrasa.org/ out of the total 200, scheduled for release by the end of this year. The overall Arabic language lessons to be posted on Madrasa will add up to 1,000 by the end of 2020, categorized into 200 statically animated stories and 800 educational videos targeted at students from kindergarten to grade 12. 

 

Dr. Waleed Al Ali, director at Madrasa, said the new stories coincide with the summer school holidays, enabling children to spend their free time reading and boosting their language skills while having fun. 

 

“From the start, we were keen on presenting the Arabic curriculum in the form of engaging stories as part of our wider mission combine education with entertainment to enhance students’ learning experience. Storytelling is known to be a key method to deliver information and impactful stories that stay in children’s memory and help form their personalities at a young age,” said Al Ali.

 

He added, “Madrasa Stories highlights the importance of launching projects that make reading an integral part of their lifestyle. Reading is the first step towards nurturing enlightened generations capable of building a better future for their communities.”

 

Al Ali noted that Madrasa Stories turn the learning experience into a bonding family activity that helps parents spend quality time with their children. 

 

 

Content on Madrasa Stories was developed in a partnership with a number of children’s book publishers in the UAE and the region that provided top stories to be available online for free. 

 

With the support of experts, stories were turned into high-tech static animations with sounds effects and voiceovers that take children through the story. The platform, for example, features Arabic alphabet phonics songs with catchy tunes and characters to help memorization.

 

Besides Arabic stories, Madrasa team is currently working to translate international titles into similar animated stories to expose children to different cultures.

 

Launched in October 2018, the platform offers 5,000 free-of-charge Arabised educational videos in science, math, biology, chemistry and physics that cater to students from kindergarten to grade 12. It falls under the umbrella of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives that combines wide-ranging humanitarian, social, development and empowerment entities and programmes under the goal to build a better future for humanity. 

 

On December 18, 2019, the Madrasa e-Learning Platform launched its Arabic language video lessons, designed by an array of education experts, teachers, scriptwriters, editors, artists, designers and technicians from all over the region. The Arabic video lessons cover 800 educational videos and 200 statically animated stories. 

 

Within two years of its launch, Madrasa e-learning platform garnered over 65 views and more than 2.5 million registered users. Its daily views reached an average 13,000.