Dubai, June 11, 2020: A strategic collaboration between Nahla wa Nahil and Scholastic now provides exclusive access to 50 of Scholastic’s latest and unique Arabic e-titles to all subscribers of Nahla wa Nahil.
Under this novel partnership, young and passionate minds will enjoy uninterrupted access to even more enriched educational content in Arabic on the most trusted, next generation e-literacy platform - Nahla wa Nahil, widely recognized across the Emirates as the only leveled e-learning resource for grades 1-6.
A comprehensive and user-friendly e-platform, Nahla wa Nahil is intricately designed to adapt to each child’s unique cognitive pace, ensuring superior learning outcomes using interactive and engaging methods of content delivery.
Scholastic is the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leading provider of digital educational resources. The latest Arabic educational e-Collection from Scholastic is outstanding as it provides leveled Arabic e-reading collection for students in grades 1-6. Intricately designed to encourage love for reading and learning in young minds, this unique collection of 50 titles includes a diverse range of fiction and nonfiction titles with Guided Reading levels across all titles.
Envisaged outcomes from this collaboration include a rekindled love and interest among young learners towards reading in their native language, coupled with a tangible way to ensure improved reading and comprehension skills.
“I am excited by this new partnership. It seems auspicious and an honour to be entering into such an exciting venture in our centenary year with Nahla wa Nahil. Scholastic has been printing books in Arabic for many, many years bringing some of our much-loved characters like Ms Frizzle from the Magic School Bus to young readers throughout the Gulf. Seeing some of our titles come alive on Nahla wa Nahil, is immense. Children are going to thrilled to read books on this platform in a fun, interactive and easy way”. Amanda Clarke, Director of Sales, MEA.
“It is absolutely critical that our children rediscover the love of the Arabic language and this will only happen if they read books they can fall in love with. We are very excited about our strategic partnership with Scholastic and are honored that after careful evaluation; Nahla wa Nahil was selected as their preferred Arabic language platform partner. We will be working very closely with Scholastic to get Nahla Wa Nahil in the hands of Arabic readers around the World”. Rany Al-Baghdadi, President – TechKnowledge and Al Manhal.
Al Manhal, a division of TechKnowledge; is the global leader in Arabic language e-learning solutions in education, including Nahla wa Nahil™, an Arabic language digital literacy e-platform for pre and elementary school learners, as well as full-text searchable databases of Arabic scholarly and scientific publications for universities and research centers through the Al Manhal higher education platform and the Al Manhal eStore.
Al Manhal’s mission is to drive better outcomes in education, research, and healthcare by providing next generation learning solutions to its users..
Scholastic was founded in 1920 as a single classroom magazine and has grown to become the world’s largest publisher and distributor of children’s books. Today, Scholastic books and educational materials are in tens of thousands of schools and tens of millions of homes in more than 160 countries, helping to create lifelong readers and learners across the globe.
For 100 years, it has been the mission of Scholastic to encourage the intellectual and personal growth of all children, beginning with literacy.
Scholastic aims to provide books and educational materials to cultivate students’ minds to utmost capacity, to inspire their curiosity, and to help build a society free from prejudice and hate. Scholastic is committed to helping all students become the best version of themselves.