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Book Boxes
Bilingual Arabic stories for modern UAE classrooms and homes.
Book Boxes sit alongside our stories at the heart of The Majlis Academy. They are designed for teachers who want children not only to hear and retell stories, but to play with them, explore them, and return to their ideas again and again through hands-on classroom experiences.
Each Book Box brings a story to life through carefully chosen objects, visuals, and prompts that help children make sense of characters, places, and ideas in ways that feel natural, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate.
- Designed for EYFS – Year 1
- Arabic specialists and non-Arabic-speaking class teachers
- Suitable for play-based classroom environments and integrated daily practice
What’s Inside
Story-linked classroom resources for play-based Arabic learning
At The Majlis Academy, our Book Boxes are created to support play-based learning, purposeful talk, and repeated language use in EYFS and Year 1 settings. Each box is directly linked to a specific story and includes practical resources that children can handle, explore, and use as part of everyday classroom routines.
Book Boxes typically include:
- key vocabulary prompts to support oral language during play and shared activities
- artefacts and manipulatives linked to story characters, creatures, and elements
- maps, visual references, and culturally relevant objects where appropriate
- display cards and posters that make key ideas and language visible in the environment
- guidance for teachers on how each resource can be used to support talk, play, exploration, and understanding
Questions People Ask
How schools use them
Book Boxes are designed to be used alongside the storybooks as part of everyday classroom practice, rather than as stand-alone activities. The resources can be introduced before, during, or after shared reading, and revisited through play, talk, small-group work, and continuous provision. Teachers can dip in flexibly, using individual elements as needed rather than following a fixed sequence.
Book Boxes are deliberately designed to support play-based learning. While some materials can be used for display, the core purpose of the boxes is to provide hands-on objects, manipulatives, and prompts that children can explore, handle, and talk about. This helps embed language and ideas through play, interaction, and repeated use over time.
Yes. Book Boxes are suitable for use by both Arabic specialists and non-Arabic-speaking class teachers. The resources are designed to make the learning focus visible and accessible, allowing all adults in the classroom to support language, talk, and exploration confidently, even if they are not fluent in Arabic.
Book Boxes are directly linked to individual storybooks and are designed to work in close alignment with the Companion Packs. While the Companion Packs provide guidance on language, talk, play, and assessment, the Book Boxes supply the physical resources that help bring those ideas into the classroom environment. Together, they form a coherent, integrated approach rather than separate products.
Yes. Book Boxes are designed to be durable and reusable, making them suitable for sharing across classes or year groups where appropriate. Schools often use them as shared resources within a phase or across EYFS, supporting consistency while allowing teachers to adapt use to their own classroom contexts.
Book Boxes support progression and consistency by providing a shared set of story-linked resources that can be revisited and used in increasingly sophisticated ways as children’s language and understanding develop. Because each box is aligned to a specific book and its Companion Pack, teachers across classes and year groups are working from the same core ideas, vocabulary, and cultural references. This helps ensure that Arabic learning builds coherently over time, rather than feeling fragmented or dependent on individual teaching approaches.
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