Qur'an and Arabic
Qur'an as a real subject, with its own record
Every child in our programs studies Qur'an. Progress is measured against your child's own goal, not squeezed into a letter grade. Arabic is taught as a language, from a published series, at the right level for your child.
Our Qur'an promises
- Taught by people, heard by people, marked by people
- Small groups sized for recitation
- A revision plan for home every night
- We never promise that a child will finish memorizing by a date
The path
From first letters to memorization
Each child starts where they are. A teacher places your child after hearing them read.
Qaida
The letters, their sounds, and joining them, until your child can read short words with the vowel marks. Groups of no more than 10.
Nazira: reading from the mushaf
Reading fluently and correctly from your family's mushaf, with tajweed taught rule by rule. Groups of no more than 8.
Juz 'Amma and onward
Memorization at your child's pace, starting with the short surahs of Juz 'Amma and continuing from there. Groups of no more than 8.
Hifz
A separate hifz track, with its own application and its own price, opens when our Qur'an faculty is in place, led by a teacher whose ijazah we have verified. Groups of no more than 6.
Every full-time student learns to read the Qur'an with tajweed and memorizes Juz 'Amma at their own pace. Students in the Islamic Studies Program work through Qaida or Nazira and Juz 'Amma. Group sizes are set in our software, which will not add a child to a full group.
The record
How we record progress
Our Qur'an record follows how memorization is actually taught.
New lesson, recent, and old revision
The teacher records the new lesson (sabaq), recent revision (sabqi), and old revision (manzil) separately, so strong new memorization never hides weak old pages.
Mistakes, counted honestly
Clear mistakes and tajweed mistakes are counted, and the teacher decides pass or repeat. Tajweed is tracked rule by rule.
Your family's mushaf
Tell us in the Family Portal which mushaf your family uses. Your child's Qur'an record follows your answer, and your child's teacher sees it. In the Madinah 604-page mushaf, we track by page. In the Indo-Pak mushaf, we track by hizb quarter (rub') for now: its page numbers differ between printings, and we will track by page once a verified Indo-Pak page map, checked by our Qur'an lead, is built into our software.
Tonight's revision
Each night your child has a short revision plan for home, and you can keep a revision diary that the teacher checks.
On the report card
Qur'an has its own section: progress against your child's goal, not a letter grade, and never part of a grade point average.
The text itself
The Qur'an text on our screens comes from a verified Uthmani text with its matching font, checked character by character by an automatic test. It is never typed into a lesson and never written by AI.
Recitation
Which recitation we teach
Our Qur'an program teaches the recitation of Hafs from 'Asim. If your child recites in Warsh or another riwayah, write to our admissions office or tell us in our conversation with you during admissions, and we will talk with you before placement.
Sending a recitation
Between classes, your child can record a recitation and send it to their teacher. The teacher listens and marks it word by word. Only the teacher, our Qur'an lead, and your family can hear it, and it is deleted 60 days after it is marked. Recordings need your separate consent.
One-to-one recitation, safely
Memorization is often heard one child at a time. No staff member is ever alone on video with a child, so a one-to-one recitation session happens only with you, the child's parent or guardian, signed in and present, or with a second cleared adult (a learning coach cannot be that adult, and in a girls' class from grade 5 it is always a woman); it is recorded, and it pauses if the second adult leaves. Otherwise, your child recites in a small group, and enters it only when the teacher is in and a classmate or a second cleared adult is too.
Teachers
A teacher's ijazah appears on their profile only after we have verified it with the person who granted it or by hearing the teacher recite. SII does not issue ijazahs. An ijazah is granted personally by a qualified teacher with a chain of transmission.
Arabic
Arabic as a living language
Modern Standard Arabic
Taught from a published series, with levels matched to national proficiency standards (ACTFL), from first letters to reading and conversation.
The right group
From grade 3, children who grew up speaking Arabic at home learn in separate groups from children who did not, so both are taught at the right pace.
Qur'anic Arabic
The grammar and vocabulary of the Qur'an, so students can follow the meaning of what they recite, is its own Islamic studies course.
The new Qur'an and Arabic lessons are written by our Qur'an and Arabic leads, not drafted with AI. You can follow their progress in the curriculum catalog.