

Series: Dick and Jane
Hardcover: 200 pages
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap; Later Printing edition (September 15, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0448433400
ISBN-13: 978-0448433400
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 0.7 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (206 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #74,322 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #160 in Books > Children's Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Story Collections #456 in Books > Children's Books > Early Learning > Beginner Readers #670 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Short Stories & Anthologies > Anthologies
Age Range: 3 - 7 years
Grade Level: Preschool - 3

The Dick and Jane series came out during a (strange) time when phonics was not being taught. If you use this book with your child, it'll be easy to understand why phonics wrongly fell out of favor. You'll find that your child, if she is ready, will learn to sight read words faster than she could with flash cards. It happens so quickly that it makes you understand the temptation to skip the phonics step.My recommendation is that you use this book as a supplement to a good phonics program. For example, if your child knows her letters and her basic sounds, and she is beginning to read phonetically in her school program, you can then use this book to help build confidence and add to her sight-reading vocabulary. It'll give you lots of opportunity to praise progress too.My daughter started this book at home when she was six and beginning first grade. She had a solid grounding in phonics, but reading was still pretty slow and tedious. It only took about five weeks to fully master the book and read any part at a relatively rapid pace. I built a reading vocabulary list in the order that words appeared in the book (see note below). We went over the list of learned words before each session, which kept her from forgetting faster than she was learning.The fact that the book is a compendium of three earlier volumes makes it a little awkward in its progression of adding sight words. The hardest pages to read are about two-thirds of the way through the book at the end of the second volume. In fact, the best approach may be to read from page one to page 79 (about half way through the second volume), then jump to the start of the third volume and skip back and forth from that point as you alternately work through the third volume and the second half of the second.
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