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→As Reading Proficiency Improves: liberal bias has crept in. Examples include references to "President's Day" rather than the real ''George Washington's Birthday" and a reference to how supposedly people are supposed tobe environmentalist
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some stories are better than others: the story about a knife in the watermelon is fun, while the story about a girl beating up a gang leader is absurd
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as reading proficiency improves
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The key to teaching good reading skills is to set a word-total goal per day after completing the instruction book, such as the child initially reading an average of 600 words per day, and after a month or two increasing that to reading 1000 words per day.
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The key to teaching good reading skills is to set a word-total per day (such as an average of 600 words per day), and then work to attain it after basic reading skills are learned. Some days will fall short, so it is good to try to read more on good days
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→See also: Arcturus Publishing
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Tom Sawyer (retold by Saviour Pirotta, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more for boys)
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which reinforce phonics with their rhymes, typically have good vocabularies, and are freely available
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correct wikilink
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Four defects in common children's reading material are these: print too small, grammatical errors, liberal claptrap (such as false promotion of evolution), and other depressing or violent content (even in Bible stories).
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but there are two minor grammatical errors in this book
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the Gospel of Mark (with merely a few omissions/changes for children as available here), starting with the simple Mark Chapter 1
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''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'', by Robert Frost
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