Dick, Jane, Sally, Mother, and Father are not the only family having fun. This time, meet Mike, twin sisters Pam and Penny, and their parents. Two families mean twice the laughs and twice the fun. Beginning readers will love the way each chapter is an individual story, and parents and educators will appreciate the way this format encourages young readers’ progression.
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60's Dick and Jane Revisited,
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This review is from: Dick and Jane Fun with Our Family (Hardcover)
This is a great volume for home-schoolers or just nostaglia. This volume along with Fun Wherever We Are reprints the pre-primers from the 1960s edition of the Dick and Jane readers. Some stories are from the 1965 multi-ethnic version, while others are not. Still with a little careful sequencing one can follow the original sequence of stories to teach reading vocabulary. Antiquarian copies of the same books are expensive, some these reprints would be great for home-schoolers.
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I prefer the other books in this series,
By Hans Hansen (Copenhagen, Denmark) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dick and Jane Fun with Our Family (Hardcover)
My daughter, who is 3, loves these Dick and Jane book reprints. The language is easy for her to understand, and the three- to five- page stories fit her attention span well - she can really get her mind around them.
That said, I would recommend the other books in this series - "Fun Wherever We Are", "We Play Outside" and "We Play and Pretend" ahead of this one, due to some sloppy editing. In my edition, for example, page 78 appears out of order - it belongs to a completely different story - and the African-American characters, Mike and Pam and Penny, are switched out halfway through with new drawings that look entirely different, a bit like when they cast new actors in the same old roles on a sitcom. "Why does Mike have a different face?" aske my blond, blue-eyed daughter, and she was right - Mike and his family had suddenly gone from very dark-skinned to very light-skinned, with new hairstyles to boot. Don't let that turn you off the series as a whole, however, which is otherwise excellent.
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Fun, Fun, Fun!,
By Sorrel Wood "columnist" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Dick and Jane Fun with Our Family (Hardcover)
The Dick and Jane books, published from the 1930's through the early '70s, are nostolgic, charming and sweetly illustrated. They're a great little piece of history both parents and children can enjoy.
However, it should be noted that the current publisher, Grosset & Dunlap, has publicly stated that these titles are offered for their entertainment value only and shouldn't be used as teaching tools. The language used in the D & J series, with its oft-repeated, simple words, was part of the "whole-word" approach to teaching reading, which was pilloried in "Why Johnny Can't Read." And indeed, decades of research have shown that phonics is the approach that works. It is with good reason that California abandoned "whole-word" teaching methods early on and current federal standards specifically require a phonic-based curriculum. So buy, read and enjoy, but when your child needs a leg-up with his/her reading, turn to phonics instead.
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