As I’ve also been working with the tasheel and talimul haq series for many years, and fully agree that they can be difficult to work with. I’ve found that the majority of teachers struggle to make lessons appeal to young children when using these resources and as a result, learning become monotonous and does not stimulate the children nor influence them. One way around it is to make detailed lesson plans for the tasheel lessons for the teachers to use, as suggested above. The lesson plans should include the objective of the lesson, the materials needed, keywords, a group activity, an individual activity, evaluation etc. This way, even teachers who are not very creative or imaginative will manage to perk things up a bit. For example, a lesson on istinja - which is portrayed in the book as a simple numbered list of do’s and don’ts accompanied by a wordsearch- can be taught by making a small enclosure in the middle of the classroom using benches to represent the bathroom. Students then practice walking in and out of the enclosure using the right foot/left foot and practice reciting the duas. Bring props such as a istinja water-can, tissue roll, an unattached tap, towel etc and flashcards with key words and pictures on them to pretend and practice. This works well for children who can’t read and write properly yet. When teaching virtues of salah, then a group activity could be to draw a web on the board and call out students to write a virtue on the board as you discuss it. Then set a task where the students make a poster to encourage people who are not praying to start praying salah. They include a caption, some virtues or one benefit on the poster (Salah Sale! Pray one get seventy free!! Limited offer, while life lasts!... or something like that) Make a competition out of it with a prize to the best poster. For a hadeeth on controlling anger, the students can do a role play where one person gets angry and the other tries to use effective methods to calm him from the sunnah (sit, lie down, ta’awudh, water etc). Or as a class write occasions when we get angry and come up with effective solutions to overcome that etc. Can be continued individually, where each student writes three occasions where he/she display anger regularly and on the opposite side of the page thinks of solutions. These are just random examples. I want to convey that an often dull presentation of material can be taught in a way that involves the students and encourages them to apply the lessons to their everyday lives. Props are also important –simple, inexpensive things like household items (a pillow and blanket to have a make-believe snooze in class and teach the sleeping sunnahs by acting out the bedtime procedure) flashcards, pictures (visual aids are much more effective than words) etc all help. I tend to discourage too much colouring and save it for homework or as a reward – classtime is too precious. Many teachers, regardless of how committed, pious and knowledgeable they are, cannot come up with ideas on their own so if experienced schoolteachers offer their expertise in this field the teachers and ulamah teaching the lessons can improve their delivery of the lessons and the students can benefit from a better learning experience. I have found that many teachers need months and months of guidance and training before they can produce effective and varied lesson plans. I have also found this to be the only waymake tasheel and talimul haq work. Although some of the new tasheel books are slightly better formatted, it is the teacher that will bring the lesson alive and teach it in a way that the students are able to retain and apply what is learnt to their lives whilst recognising the benefits of doing things the sunnah way. For seerah of the Messenger I have not found one book that I was satisfied with for younger children to use and in the end ended up producing my own workbooks for the kids to use. There is definitely a lack of quality resources when it comes to teaching Islam to children. We need to add to them otherwise an Islamic lifestyle will never appeal the younger generation.