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Ta'leemul Haq; a basic Hanafi fiqh book for children which is taught in many evening makaatib. It can be downloaded here: http://www.islamicbulletin.com/servi...ils.aspx?id=67 and can be purchased here: http://www.azharacademy.com/Scripts/...?idproduct=646

This is a good book for a teacher to explain and give copies to the students for them to learn and memorise their lessons in their own personal time as homework etc. Whereas, they can also be taught Nurul Idah, but I wouldn't recommend giving copies to the students as it contains masaa-il pertaining to some sensitive issues. Rather the teacher can teach the whole class together directly from the book and repeat the relevant lessons until the students have learnt them very well. For this style of teaching, I would recommend using this English version of Nurul Idah with commentary: http://www.azharacademy.com/Scripts/...idproduct=1904

Stories of the Prophets; a very basic for children and one of my personal favourites to teach my students. Even one paragraph a day at the end of lesson with some explanation has them completely absorbed. A great means to teach children aqida and various other Islamic knowledges in a manner that the children enjoy: http://www.islamicbulletin.com/servi...ls.aspx?id=320

For Arabic reading and tajweed for beginners and really young children, I would recommend the Ahsanul Qawaa'id by Azhar Academy, although alongside this I prefer to teach them all the tajweed rules as they come up. This really helps them and gives them an excellent footing when moving on to the Quran. Although, for tajweed I would highly recommend that it is taught by someone with a firm knowledge in tajweed and the makhaarij of the letters. It can be purchased from here: http://www.azharacademy.com/Scripts/...?idproduct=640

For older students, I would recommend Tajweed for Beginners by Islamic book service, again, this should be taught by someone who themself has very good tajweed. It can be purchased here: http://www.azharacademy.com/Scripts/...?idproduct=644

For juzz 'amma and quran, I dislike very much colour-coded material as this makes the students lazy and forgetful of the tajweed rules, and if they have had a good reading of the ahsanul qawaa'id then they should be far from needing anything colour-coded, but rather implementing the rules as they were taught to them. I recommend teaching them from a plain 13 line South African Print quran straight after completing the ahsanul qawaa'id as this helps with fluency in quran recitation. The South African print is probably the best quran to teach on for a few reasons; mainly the clear text. After learning to recite on this quran, they should be able to recite well on any other print too; with ease. It can be downloaded here: http://www.quraanonline.net/Quraan_Chapters.htm and purchased from here: http://www.al-rashad.com/Quran-13-Li...on_p_2810.html

It can also be purchased from most Islamic book stores for between £5-£10

Baarakallaahu feek.

Wassalaam.