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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
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 biblical facts, such as Jesus sweating blood during the Passion and demons actually cast out of victims).
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

excerpts from Shakespeare plays, such as Friends, Romans, Countrymen from Julius Caesar
Aesop's Fables^[2]
a collection of fun poems for kids^[3]

poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
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)^[4]
Sherlock Holmes works, all of which entered the public domain as of Jan. 1, 2023^[5] - reading level is around grade 8
Poems Every Child Should Know, by Mary E. Burt^[6]

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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 :*[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]]]
+*excerpts from [[Shakespeare]] plays, such as ''[[Friends, Romans, Countrymen]]'' from ''[[Julius Caesar (Play)|Julius Caesar]]''
 *''[[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>
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 :*[https://poets.org/poem/nonsense-alphabet Nonsense Alphabet, a poem by Edward Lear]
 *poems by [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]
-*excerpts from [[Shakespeare]] 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