Difference between revisions of "Phonics reading list"

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Phonics reading list includes a list of books that can be read by a child instructed by phonics. They include:

the Gospel of Mark, starting with the simple Mark Chapter 1
First Reader
The History of Minecraft - if the reader has an interest in that popular program. This interesting article uses numbers, capitalization, possessive form, and other grammar not in the Bible.
Aesop's Fables^[1]
poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
simple Shakespeare excerpts from plays, such as Friends, Romans, Countrymen from Julius Caesar
the United States Constitution, starting with its Preamble. The Constitution is filled with phonetic words. State constitutions, too.
popular nursery rhymes
Poems Every Child Should Know, by Mary E. Burt^[2]

More advanced authors are:

G.K. Chesterton's Father Brown stories (ages 8 to 12)
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Fable) and other poems by him
Emily Dickinson
C.S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia (ages 6-12) and The Chronicles of Narnia (rated at grade levels 5 or 6)

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 *''[[Aesop's Fables]]''<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19994/pg19994-images.html</ref>
 *poems by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]
+*simple [[Shakespeare]] excerpts from plays, such as [[Friends, Romans, Countrymen]] from [[Julius Caesar (Play)|Julius Caesar]]
 *the [[United States Constitution]], starting with its [[Preamble]].  The Constitution is filled with phonetic words.  State constitutions, too.
 *popular nursery rhymes