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'''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 (Century Schoolbook, 28-point font is ideal),<ref>Large print is particularly helpful for children who do not sit still, or who have any kind of learning issues.  Large print may be better on the eyes of all children.</ref> as it makes an enormously beneficial difference in the ease of the child's reading.   
 
'''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 (Century Schoolbook, 28-point font is ideal),<ref>Large print is particularly helpful for children who do not sit still, or who have any kind of learning issues.  Large print may be better on the eyes of all children.</ref> as it makes an enormously beneficial difference in the ease of the child's reading.   
  
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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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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).  Reading to the child is unhelpful; the child must do the reading in order to improve.
  
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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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The key to teaching good reading skills is to set a word-total goal per day (such as the child reading 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.
  
 
The following, with the easy-to-read large print, are freely or affordably available:
 
The following, with the easy-to-read large print, are freely or affordably available:

Revision as of 07:04, November 13, 2023

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 (Century Schoolbook, 28-point font is ideal),[1] as it makes an enormously beneficial difference in the ease of the child's reading.

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). Reading to the child is unhelpful; the child must do the reading in order to improve.

The key to teaching good reading skills is to set a word-total goal per day (such as the child reading 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.

The following, with the easy-to-read large print, are freely or affordably available:

  • The Wizard of Oz (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for girls, but there are three minor grammatical errors in this book).
  • Call of the Wild (retold by Steward Ross, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (more suitable for boys, and well-edited such that the first noticeable error is not until p. 51 out of 64, when the verb "were" is missing in "There no other signs of life.")[3]
  • The Wind in the Willows (retold by Samantha Noonan, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (very polished, and interesting to a child with its use of animals, a car, and an escape from prison)
  • The Secret Garden (retold by Annabel Savery, Arcturus Publishing, 2021)
  • 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 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.
  • 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)[6]
  • Sherlock Holmes works, all of which entered the public domain as of Jan. 1, 2023[7] - reading level is around grade 8
  • Poems Every Child Should Know, by Mary E. Burt[8]

More advanced authors

More advanced authors are:

For Older students

  • Tom Sawyer (retold by Saviour Pirotta, Arcturus Publishing, 2021) (features dialogue with deliberately poor grammar, and has a violent scene early in the book).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Large print is particularly helpful for children who do not sit still, or who have any kind of learning issues. Large print may be better on the eyes of all children.
  2. ↑ See also Poetry Foundation.
  3. ↑ Additional books of this series by this publisher, with an easy-to-read font, include Robin Hood, and Robinson Crusoe.
  4. ↑ https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/19994/pg19994-images.html
  5. ↑ https://poets.org/text/poems-kids
  6. ↑ https://www.richlandsource.com/area_history/public-domain-makes-artistic-works-available-published-in-1927-before/article_300b067c-90b3-11ed-b1d0-2bbf0785a32e.html
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ Available online at https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/16436/pg16436-images.html
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