TAJWEED

We are going to be studying to read the Quran using the

Baghdadi System. The book that we should be using is Easy Qur'an
Reading with Baghdadi Primer.
It teaches us in this order.

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Alphabet
Harakat
Mad
Tanween
Sukoon
Shada

and by this method

1. Learn the alphabet
2. Speed test
3. Reading letters together with no meaning

While learning the pronunciation of the alphabet we learnt that

there are 7 big letters, 2 letters which can be big or short and the
remaining letters are short. The 7 big letters are , and
the two letters which can be either are .
is small when it is kasara and big with fatha and dumma.
is big at the beginning of a word, and if it is after dumma. If after
kasra small.

Rules of Stopping I need the textbook as I did not get this!

Would you please teach this again?
It is about the Audhu Billahi mina-Shaitan-nir-Rajeem - Bismillah Ar
Rehman Ar Raheem and then the first verse of whatever is being
read. But I am unsure about this.

Harakat
This is the count of the vowel sounds whether long or short.
Described to us on a ladder that had up to five rungs.
Mad
The double sound of a vowel in the middle
Tanween
Example given was shokraan when it is a double vowel sound it
changes to an n
Sukoon
When you stop sharply.
Shadda
A double consonant.