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*''[https://www.techradar.com/news/the-history-of-minecraft The History of Minecraft]'' - if the reader has an interest in that popular program. This interesting article uses years, numbers, capitalization, possessive form, and other elements of style not learned from reading the [[Bible]]; this article is also good practice for the "ti" sound. | *''[https://www.techradar.com/news/the-history-of-minecraft The History of Minecraft]'' - if the reader has an interest in that popular program. This interesting article uses years, numbers, capitalization, possessive form, and other elements of style not learned from reading the [[Bible]]; this article is also good practice for the "ti" sound. | ||
| + | :*Also good for Minecraft players is to read [https://opensource.com/alternatives/minecraft 5 open source alternatives to Minecraft] | ||
| + | *[[Great poems]] | ||
*''[[Aesop's Fables]]''<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19994/pg19994-images.html</ref> | *''[[Aesop's Fables]]''<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19994/pg19994-images.html</ref> | ||
*a collection of fun poems for kids<ref>https://poets.org/text/poems-kids</ref> | *a collection of fun poems for kids<ref>https://poets.org/text/poems-kids</ref> | ||
Revision as of 05:40, May 25, 2023
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 years, numbers, capitalization, possessive form, and other elements of style not learned from reading the Bible; this article is also good practice for the "ti" sound.
- Also good for Minecraft players is to read 5 open source alternatives to Minecraft
- Great poems
- Aesop's Fables[1]
- a collection of fun poems for kids[2]
- poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
- excerpts from Shakespeare 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
- public domain detective stories: the first three novels in The Hardy Boys series by Franklin W. Dixon (The Tower Treasure, The House on the Cliff, and The Secret of the Old Mill)[3]
- Sherlock Holmes works, all of which entered the public domain as of Jan. 1, 2023[4] - reading level is around grade 8
- Poems Every Child Should Know, by Mary E. Burt[5]
More advanced authors
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)
See also
- Illiteracy
- Literacy
- Mistakes Due to Lack of Phonics
- Phonics mistakes
- Book finder that estimates the reading level
- Classical Christian Reading list (unvetted for potential political bias)
References
- ↑ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19994/pg19994-images.html
- ↑ https://poets.org/text/poems-kids
- ↑ https://www.richlandsource.com/area_history/public-domain-makes-artistic-works-available-published-in-1927-before/article_300b067c-90b3-11ed-b1d0-2bbf0785a32e.html
- ↑ https://reason.com/2023/01/02/now-anybody-can-write-a-sherlock-holmes-story/#:~:text=Now%2C%20after%20more%20than%20130,character%20in%20a%20published%20work.
- ↑ Available online at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16436/pg16436-images.html
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