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| − | '''Phonics reading list''' includes a list of beneficial books that can be read by a child learning by [[phonics]]. They include: | + | '''Phonics reading list''' includes a list of beneficial books that can be read by a child learning by [[phonics]]. Large print is essential for a young reader, and is freely or affordably available for each of these: |
| − | *''[[First Reader]]'' | + | *''[[First Reader]]'' - the 165-instruction book that should be used again and again, like a bible |
| | *the [[Gospel of Mark]] (with merely a few omissions/changes for children), starting with the simple [[Mark Chapter 1]] | | *the [[Gospel of Mark]] (with merely a few omissions/changes for children), starting with the simple [[Mark Chapter 1]] |
| | *''[[A Child's Garden of Verses]]'', by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (Dover, Children's Thrift Classics, "In Easy-to-Read Type," 1992) - a collection of 64 charming poems with many [[phonics|phonetic]] rhymes | | *''[[A Child's Garden of Verses]]'', by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]] (Dover, Children's Thrift Classics, "In Easy-to-Read Type," 1992) - a collection of 64 charming poems with many [[phonics|phonetic]] rhymes |
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| | :*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45952/a-poison-tree ''A Poison Tree'', by [[William Blake]]] | | :*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45952/a-poison-tree ''A Poison Tree'', by [[William Blake]]] |
| | :*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43914/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-56d222cbc80a9The ''Walrus and the Carpenter'', by [[Lewis Carroll]]] | | :*[https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43914/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-56d222cbc80a9The ''Walrus and the Carpenter'', by [[Lewis Carroll]]] |
| − | *''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'', by [[Robert Frost]] | + | :*''Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'', by [[Robert Frost]] |
| | *''Old Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes'' ("A Little Golden Book," published in 1948 and again in 1988 by Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin 53404) | | *''Old Mother Goose and Other Nursery Rhymes'' ("A Little Golden Book," published in 1948 and again in 1988 by Western Publishing Company, Inc., Racine, Wisconsin 53404) |
| | *''Bible Stories for Children'', retold by Geoffrey Horn and Arthur Cavanaugh, Illustrated by Arvis Steward (Macmillan Publishing Co. NY 1980) (easy-to-read print with artwork, but flaws in using this book for children include (i) its inclusion of the gruesome [[John the Baptist]] death, (ii) its exaggerated use of elderly images in its artwork, and (iii) its dilution of [[Bible|biblical]] facts, such as [[Jesus]] sweating blood during the [[Passion]] and [[demon]]s actually cast out of victims). | | *''Bible Stories for Children'', retold by Geoffrey Horn and Arthur Cavanaugh, Illustrated by Arvis Steward (Macmillan Publishing Co. NY 1980) (easy-to-read print with artwork, but flaws in using this book for children include (i) its inclusion of the gruesome [[John the Baptist]] death, (ii) its exaggerated use of elderly images in its artwork, and (iii) its dilution of [[Bible|biblical]] facts, such as [[Jesus]] sweating blood during the [[Passion]] and [[demon]]s actually cast out of victims). |