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The World of Dick and Jane and Friends (Treasury)

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My son read this book over the summer when he was five, and learned to become a fluent reader before starting the first grade. This book is a little bit harder to read for beginner's than the Treasury of Dick and Jane. I would say it's more beginner first grade level. I would start with the Treasury of Dick and Jane first, and then this one. This is a cute book about sweet characters that we grew up with. My son loves these books and still likes to read them. I recommend these books to all children who are beginner readers. As long as they know the beginning parts of sounding words out, they will sail through these books!

I bought this for my 4 year old daughter for Christmas. I read the book for her at first, then I would point to the words as I read them and waited for her reply. Sure enough by the second day, she said the words with me! She is very excited to read and reread this book. The words are easy and repetitive, which is key. My daughter claps her hands for herself as she reads to me. How cool is that!! If you can't get this book, at least read something to your kids. Got my $ worth and a lot more...my daughter became a reader!!

My kids started in PreK reading these. I learned to read with these and thought they were great. My kids did too. They are so good because they start out so easy and repeat so much the kids gain confidence in reading very fast and want to keep on. Many of the other easy readers are too frustrating because there is not enought repitition.

My girls now are in 2nd grade and both read at 6th grade level. I think these books helped alot. I also think you must read to them everyday and make reading a normal part of their everyday life. If they love it they will be good readers.

I have five children. I am a homeschool mom with an elementary ed certification. I had been taught that phonics was the answer to our reading problems with our children. My two oldest were taught to read using a phonics based system (originally public schooled). Neither of these two are exceptional readers, nor do they enjoy reading all that much, but they read on level. For my next child, I found a Dick and Jane reader and began to teach her myself. By three she was reading WELL! By four she read chapter books and now that she is ten she reads on a college level. My fourth child also read extremely well. She is three now and has been taught using the Dick and Jane collection. She has already read the same books that they used with my two oldest in first grade at the local public school. I'm not saying that you can't use SOME phonics techniques and I do occasionally throw in a rule when I am working with her, but it seems we hit an exception to that rule as soon as I present it to her (thus the problem with phonics). My mother was raised on Dick and Jane and points out that her generation had no problems producing good readers. I will be purchasing another for my youngest to learn from when she is older. The skills that reading these books develop as well as the confidence that the child feels with each new story read is incomparable. (P.S. - We write the date at the top corner of the story's title page each time the child is able to read the story completely through by him/herself for the first time. They call it "getting numbers" and it's a big celebration as you get your numbers on each story!)

This is a terrific book for the beginning reader. My daughter is 5 years old in pre-K. She started reading _Dick and Jane and Friends_. She did so well, I wanted to reinforce it with another Dick and Jane book.

Like _Dick and Jane and Friends_, _The World of Dick and Jane and Friends_ is a collection of three different Dick and Jane readers. _The World of Dick and Jane and Friends_ starts off very simply but progresses more quickly than _Dick and Jane and Friends_. As a book that relies more on word recognition than phonics, that can a little difficult for a new reader. It would be best for a very beginning reader to start with the last reader in that book "The New We Look and See." I think the editors should have placed that reader first in the book (like "We Look and See" was first in _Dick and Jane and Friends_).

The stories of "We Look and See" from _Dick and Jane and Friends_ and "The New We Look and See" in _The World of Dick and Jane and Friends_ are different but the reading difficulties are the same. The same is true of "We Come and Go" from _Dick and Jane and Friends_.

I highly recommend this book for beginning readers. If you have a very beginning reader, try _Dick and Jane and Friends_ simply because of the order of the readers within the book. Not like you can't skip around _The World of Dick and Jane and Friends_, but my daughter liked to see herself complete the book, reading it beginning to end.

My five year-old daughter loves this book. Very quickly, she has gained confidence in her reading abilities. She loves to read and re-read the stories herself.

Why in the heck did they take these books out of the schools? I learned how to read from the Dick & Jane books. My six year old son has been reading these books for the past year. It has helped him tremoundously and now he is learning to read larger words and is enjoying it very much.
Bring these books back in the schools. There is another version of the Dick & Jane books that has a series of African American stories in them....with twin girls called Penny & Pam. The name of the book is called "Dick & Jane Fun With Our Family" My son loves reading these short stories.

My son is [...]is reading this book my himself. The book uses repeats the words many times which is how he learned them. Once he learned the sounds of each letter, the book uses words that are easy to sound out. The stories are cute and he can relate to them because they are simple and humorous.

THE WORLD OF DICK AND JANE (TREASURY), is the second compendium volume in the Dick and Jane series. It encompasses many of the Dick and Jane books.

See Baby Boomers read this book. See how much Baby Boomers like this book! It has many books in it that Baby Boomers read when they were little children. It
reminds Baby Boomers of times that were simpler and easier for them to live in. The 1950s and early 1960s really WERE times that were simpler and easier for EVERYONE to live in. And these books about Dick and Jane were simple and easy to
read too. They used repetition to teach. Repetition of words. Reptition of phrases. Oh, oh, oh, how Baby Boomers love to see these repetitions of words and phrases! OH, oh, oh, how Baby Boomsers love to see these repetitions of words and phrases in print! Baby Boomers certainly love to look, and love to read, and love to see, and see again, into Dick and Jane Books. It makes Baby Boomers SO happy!

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How do i know this? I'M a Baby Boomer! (Boom, boom, boom!) And, yes, these books DO have a wonderful nostalgia about them, for those who had them in elementary school, (which may include some Post-Baby Boomers as well.) However, I remember reading these books in first and second grade, and wondering -- WHY do the grandmother and grandfather live on a farm? No-one at PS 92, in Brooklyn New York, where I was in first and second grade there, had grandparents who lived on a farm. Then I reasoned that maybe, that was the way for many OTHER children, living in other cities in the country. I guessed I was in a large, but distinctly minority group of children whose grandparents did NOT live on a farm. It was my first sociology lesson, I guess....

"Dick and Jane" books are easy books from which to learn to read. They are a good starting off point. However, in the years since I was in second grade, I've read THE ROYAL CROWN READERS, (or at least Book 6), and have peeked into MCGUFFY READERS. Both of these textbooks give far greater vocabulary and story intracy than do continuing readers in the Simon and Shuster series, for students in the 5th and 6th Grades. Whilst "Dick and Jane" graduates were reading fairy tales, in as simple a language base as possible, those with Royal Crown Readers were reading about African safaries, and those with McGuffy Readers were reading about great moments in American history.....

But these are all books for 5th and 6th graders. The true beauty of the Dick and Jane Books is that they are SO easy to learn from, that practically anyone CAN learn from them. Where you go in reading, (and writing) skills, after finishing the Dick and Jane books is up to, first your school board...but then, mostly, up to you. I know I started with Dick and Jane, and look back on it very fondly. With over 600 Amazon Reviews, and a prized membership in Amazon Vine, I don't think the Dick and Jane series did me any harm. In fact, it did me a lot of good!

As Mary Poppins said, "Well begun is half done." The classic "Dick and Jane" series is certainly a very good beginning! Then, maybe, it's on to the library, (or Amazon), for ROYAL CROWN READERS, and/or McGUFFY READERS. And then -- why not? -- to THE NEW YORK TIMES, and other interesting adult reading material!

"Oh, look! Look and see Dick! Look and see Dick read the U.S. Constitution! See Dick UNDERSTAND every word of the U.S. Constitution!"

"Oh, look! Look and see Jane! Look and see Jane read the U.S. Declaration of Independence! See Jane UNDERSTAND every word of the U.S. Declaration of Independence!"

"Oh, look! Look and see Dick and Jane! Look and see Dick and Jane read the U.S.
Bill of Rights! Look and see Dick and Jane UNDERSTAND every word of the U.S. Bill of Rights!

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........Simplistic beginnings need not lead to simplistic endings. Easy-reading
in the first grade makes for less frustration -- and the pursuit of more reading ability!

We love this book it is a grat reader of all times for a young one to start reading with. We start teaching our son to read out of this book before he started kindergarten and this is what he asked for as a birthday gift . He is 6 years old and loves to practice his reading with this book. I remember reading the Dick and Jane book when I was young and it is just a wonderful classic book.