When dealing with children you have to remeber one most important things: be creative and make them interested of wathever you teach them. That means that you must try that more than working with adults because they lack attention and discipline. You know... they are just kids. There are 2 important things to consider: follow the necessary steps (as below or as you consider better fit for your students) and use various stimuli in order keep the children active and focused on you. Remember to have fun, you along with your students, because they don't like to come in school and sit down for hours.
Teach children the Arabic alphabet using posters (with letters and examples of words) on the walls, alphabet songs, various games and other fun stuff. For example, you can print out coloring sheets of familiar animals, objects or fruits that begin with the letter you are teaching that day and have the kids color them. Later you can post them on the walls, standing alone or as sentences (as strips along the room). Singing helps children recall different words: play each of them several times at the beginning of the class and have the kind repeat them. This will help children memorize the different letters and increase familiarity with the way letters are pronounced.
Help with short vowel recognition: fathah, dammath and kasrah. To help with identification give the children rows of vowels or indicate the pictures on the walls around them and ask them to identify each. Ath this stage it is not necessary to teach how the vowel sounds because the sound is dependent upon the letter that is written below the vowel.
Isolate each vowel. When the children know all vowels, you can teach the sound of each. You can let the kind inspire from the pictures on the wall while you ask them to write lines of letters of the alphabet with the vowel over each letter. This drill will help them with identifying the sound that belongs with each combination.
Teach sukoon in the same way when the short vowels have been learned.
Teach the three long vowels: fathah before alif, kasrah before yeah and dammah before wow.
Teach children the moon (gamariyyah) letters with "al" and the sun (shamsiyyah) letters with "al". To do that give the kids words to practice that are prefixed with al.
Encourage students to continue practicing. Use several types of drills and ask the kids to exercise in the class and at home: the more they practice, write and read, the stronger their word identification will become. You can integrate drills in all the steps of learning the alphabet in order to help the children with familiarization as well as word identification based on the placement of the short and long vowels.
