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Summary: Love this book!
Review: Cute, cute, cute!!! I remember reading these books in elementary school and had been yearning to buy some of them. The originals are outrageous on ebay and I am so glad they decided to reprint these! I also buy the calendars which everyone at work raves over!!
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Summary: A great way to teach children to read
Review: I cannot think of a better way for children to learn to read. My son just turned 5, and for whatever reason they have not been teaching reading or even much phonics in his 4-K classroom. Prior to our starting, he did have some sight-reading ability, particularly with color words and some other words. But he has made very quick progress, and in one month's time is almost finished with the book. Each time a new word is introduced it is repeated again and again, to help the children to learn to recognize it with ease. Another reviewer made the point that the book can't be used straight-through, and she is correct. It's best to start at the beginning and go to halfway through book two, then skip to the start of book three. After finishing book three, go back to the middle of book two and finish. I really wish they put a teaching guide in the back of the book, and made workbooks keyed to the book. Apparently the publishers don't understand that many of us are desperate to use these types of books to teach our children to read, and not merely something to own as a bit of nostalgia. Modern reading texts tend to feature city parents with all types of modern lifestyles that don't reflect how the average American lives. So this book is a real breath of fresh air, and a great way to teach children to read. By the way, my son jumps up and down and screams "Dick and Jane" every night when I tell him it's time to read. I've had to limit him to four stories a night, two re-reads and two new stories, as I'm afraid to go any faster will leave him not remembering the new words. So the book is a hit, at least with my son.
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Summary: Absolutely Precious
Review: I purchased this book for my 6 year old daughter. Her first grade teacher has asked the parents to read at least 15 minutes with our children every day.
The very most I love about this book is it's large hard cover, large print and precious illustrations.
We sit down together and cradle this large book as she reads. Every chapter has new words to sound out and put to use. Some words are used often and then re-introduced.
This time I'm spending with my daughter reading Dick and Jane is so very special to me. I am not looking foward to the end of the book and have already begun to search for more of the same.
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Summary: Great Tool for Children
Review: I remember growing up and learning to read with Dick and Jane. Now my daughter has the same wonderful opportunity. She loves the stories, because she is able to read them on her own. As a beginning reader, she loves the fact she doesn't have to have me read the stories to her. It is an awesome choice.
We bought this for my daughter's teacher, and she also loves it.
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Summary: Tried and True -- Put D&J back in the Classroom
Review: I used to be a little chagrined to admit I learned to read in Kindergarten (1964) with Dick and Jane! It was almost "out of fashion" then -- in Grade 1 I remember the teacher introducing something "new" called phonics that was much more difficult to master than "sight reading" had been. (By Grade 1 I was already reading chapter books such as "Honey Takes a Trip" using my D&J skills.) So, when my own Kindergartener was not having much success with "Bob Books" and was in fact expressing great frustration, I was worried. I thought it was her "readiness" -- I never dreamed it might be the approach I'd selected. That became instantly apparent when she got her yellow D&J anthology. By the end of the first night she was reading stories. When Grandma later gave her the blue D&J anthology, she read the entire book that night out loud to Grandma! She still resists the Bob Books but night after night she's in her bed reading and re-reading D&J to her animals. Guess success feels good to her, too. And, her reading vocabulary is bigger than her school-mates. It's a shame that School Boards have still not put D&J back in the classroom!
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Summary: Love this book!
Review: I was disturbed to see that my 4 year old was not being taught any sort of phonics in his Pre-K environment. We have the Leap Frog Twist 'N Shout Phonics, but I have found that the sound quality isn't the best and it is sometimes difficult to hear the correct pronunciation. He would get frustrated and lose interest.
My husband and I talked about how we had learned with "Dick & Jane", so I thought I would give it a try. My son and I sat down for 20 minutes as he eased through the first stories. He then gathered the rest of the family and read the first 6 stories, tripping only on one word. No one was more thrilled than my son - so thrilled that he called his grandparents and read it again to them!
We put it down for 2 days (just to make sure that he wasn't memorizing) and he picked up it up and read it all again without issue.
Get this book!
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Summary: What a gem!
Review: I was disturbed to see that my 4 year old was not being taught any sort of phonics in his Pre-K environment. We have the Leap Frog Twist 'N Shout Phonics, but I have found that the sound quality isn't the best and it is sometimes difficult to hear the correct pronunciation. He would get frustrated and lose interest.
My husband and I talked about how we had learned with "Dick & Jane", so I thought I would give it a try. My son and I sat down for 20 minutes as he eased through the first stories. He then gathered the rest of the family and read the first 6 stories, tripping only on one word. No one was more thrilled than my son - so thrilled that he called his grandparents and read it again to them!
We put it down for 2 days (just to make sure that he wasn't memorizing) and he picked up it up and read it all again without issue.
Get this book!
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Summary: Money Well Spent-Great for Homeschool
Review: I was surprised how easily my daughter (who, in general I would classify as a non-reader, an emergent reader at best) can read this book. What shocks me is that she is actually interested in the storylines, since the text is like "Oh, Spot! Funny, funny Spot!" It's the illustrations. She loves the illustrations, and she is dying to find out what kind of hijinxs that Sally is going to get herself into next.
One of the major criticisms of the Dick and Jane series, beyond the phonics issue (which I could care less about...if she's reading, I'm happy), is that all the stories are geared toward white middle class kids in the "nuclear" family. For some of the stories, I would definitely say that I can see how they would be alienating if you are not part of that very narrow slice of America where Father wears a suit to work everyday (if there even is a guy named "Father" living in your house who goes to work). The fact that I am of European ancestry makes it difficult for me to know if my daughter wouldn't like these stories as much if we were Athabascan or Maori or Black, but, in general, the stories that only feature the children and the animal characters will probably be appealing to children of all classes, races and ethnic backgrounds.
I know that there are Dick and Jane stories from the later years of the series that do introduce nonwhite characters, but I haven't read any of those, and they are not featured in this volume.
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Summary: my 4 year - 2 1/2 month old daughter loves to read!
Review: My daughter loves cute colorful pictures of kitty cats, dogs, and babies. With its colorful pictures and cute subject matter, this book was a hit. We also bought Bob Books, but she prefers the dick and jane book for the subject matter and pictures. At 4 years and 2 1/2 months old, she was able to begin reading about 35 - 40 pages during the first week. Now, my daughter is one of the most independent, stubborn children that I have ever known, and she deplores being "taught". I didn't really "teach" her this book. She already had the phonetic skills to sound out words. We began reading the book, with her reading most of the words without having to sound them out, and slowly, because most of the words are repetitive, she was able to get through a few chapters. Since most of the words are 3-4 letters long, she can sound out most of the new words on her own. I would highly recommend this book for the value ($8- for 200 pg. hardcover book), for the durability (hardcover), and because it is a wonderful educational tool. But it is an A+ because its color pictures and subject matter are interesting enough for my daughter to pick it up and thumb through the pictures and even read to herself.
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Summary: just fantastic - challenging
Review: my daughter, who is 5, is just beginning to read, but she took to this book like lightening. the wonderful pictures and repetitive text work on word recognition in a fantastic way. this book is more challenging than others that she's tried, but considering the fact that she read 56 pages by herself last night -- out loud, so i can tell she was getting it right -- i'd say she's up to the challenge.
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