Bibles on a 2nd grade reading level?

[Laurie4b]

Can anyone recommend a children's Bible on a 2.0 reading level? It would need to be one with stories, not a translation. (The translations I'm aware of are on a 3.0 level, so this is a little lower.) I would like it to have a large number of Bible stories and to have illustrations that either look like Middle Easterners or that are multi-ethnic. ( So many children's Bibles reflect diversity of Caucasian skin and eye color instead of either of these options. )

 

Does anyone have any recommendations?

[BrandieRose]

We like the Zonderkids "Read With Me Bible"

http://www.amazon.com/NIrV-Read-Bible-Dennis-Jones/dp/0310920086/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362259125&sr=8-2&keywords=children%27s+read+with+me+bible

[KarenNC]

I don't remember the reading level, but we liked the DK Children's Illustrated Bible http://www.amazon.com/Childrens-Illustrated-Bible-Selina-Hastings/dp/0756609356/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362259866&sr=8-1&keywords=dk+childrens+bible

[ElizabethB]

This breaks up the words into syllables, making it easy for students to read even longer words.

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=tq70lgEACAAJ&dq=words+of+one+syllable+pollard&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9YkyUaDzLaT62AXezYGYDA&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBg

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=azgCqAAACAAJ&dq=words+of+one+syllable+pollard&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9YkyUaDzLaT62AXezYGYDA&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBQ

 

Here is an example of one of her one syllable books that is online to view:

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=HPk1AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=words+of+one+syllable+pollard&hl=en&sa=X&ei=9YkyUaDzLaT62AXezYGYDA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAQ

[weederberries]

We've used these, but have moved on to NIrV.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Day-Kids-Bible-Readers-Tyndale/dp/0842355367/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1362267611&sr=8-1&keywords=day+by+day+bible

 

http://www.amazon.com/Begin---Read-Bible-Tyndale-Kids/dp/1414309341/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1362267611&sr=8-2&keywords=day+by+day+bible

 

I think the second one would be the best match for what you are looking for.

[alisoncooks]

We've used these, but have moved on to NIrV.

 

http://www.amazon.co...ay by day bible

 

http://www.amazon.co...ay by day bible

 

I think the second one would be the best match for what you are looking for.

 

I have both of these and agree they're good. The 2nd one linked (Begin-to-Read) is probably appropriate for 2nd grade. (I bought it for my DD, but she's not there yet, so I'm saving it for 2nd grade.)

 

Another option might be R&S Reading 2. It's 2nd grade reading program *is* a Bible Reader. Here's what it includes:

 

The 2 hardbound readers contain Units 1, 2, 3 and 4, 5 respectively. The first unit reviews the stories from Genesis studied in Grade 1. Units 2, 3, and 4 continue the Old Testament stories from the bondage in Egypt to the death of King Saul. Unit 5 consists of stories about Jesus, taken from the Gospel of Mark.

 

[Kathryn]

We used the one in Sonlight's second grade readers. It was this book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0310725887/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1362278220&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

[weederberries]

My Father's World also has a Bible reader. It starts very simply with a sentence or two per page and progresses to a few paragraphs per page by the end.

[ElizabethB]

The ones I linked, we have hard copies, they have black and white drawings, so it is hard to say, but many of them appear more Middle Eastern than Caucasian, based on beards and facial characteristics. They have a few archaic words but are very easy to sound out for someone who has learned basic phonics because of the syllable division of larger words, and there was an attempt made to use as many 1 syllable words as possible. The stories are very well written--although they are stories, not a Bible translation, it is very well done and true to the Bible.