For parents and teachers

Each train has up to six carriages and runs through four stations, the IqraSaurus 4-I steps:

• Inspire: the train pulls in. Look, count and wonder before reading.
• Investigate: the engine shows a joined word. Your child finds its letters in the yard and couples them in order. On the Letter Line, they count each letter's dots.
• Integrate: find the word in its ayah, then read what the ayah means. On the Letter Line, put the letters in order.
• Impart: your child becomes the conductor. They show a card, you read it, and they check you.

A wrong tap only wiggles. There is no score and no timer. The yellow “For the grown-up” boxes say what to do and say; you can hide them in the settings.

Choose by your child, not by age.

• Starter: 2–3 letters, each with only a fathah, kasrah or dammah, like the paper engine cards. Juz 'Amma has only a few of these, so beginners start on the Letter Line.
• Explorer: up to 4 letters, with sukun, long vowels and tanwin. Adds one decoy carriage.
• Investigator: up to 6 letters, with shaddah and al-. Adds two decoy carriages.
• Ayah train: every word of a short ayah is a carriage. Good alongside memorising.

On a phone, sit beside your child and pass it back and forth. In a class, use the projector and set the text size to Larger in the settings: the whole train grows.

Every train has a Print button: engine cards, carriage cards to cut out and colour, a worksheet that works both ways, and a page for the grown-up with a ticket. Children can also line up holding a card each and become the train.

Finishing a train stamps its ticket. When every train of a Letter Line platform, of one level in a surah (or all its Ayah trains), or of a theme is done, a carriage joins your child's train. It is saved on this device only, one train per child. Nothing is ever taken away. See the train and print its poster.

The Arabic, in both spellings, comes from the same Quran text the other IqraSaurus tools use. It is copied by program, never typed. Carriages use the simple voweled spelling, so a word splits cleanly into letters. The ayat are always shown in mushaf spelling.

Some words never become carriages: 108 words whose mushaf spelling has a small alif, waw or ya that the simple spelling hides (a beginner would read them short), and the Name of Allah (21 times), which is read as a whole word. They still appear in the Ayah trains.

The English meaning is Abdullah Yusuf Ali's, for the whole ayah. The wonder questions come from published Tadabbur guides. The theme lists are being checked by our asatizah.

No login, no sign-up and no tracking. Tickets and trains stay on your device.