We Look (Read With Dick and Jane)

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Summary: great companion to "Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane...
Review: and Friends." My daughter has been learning to read with the hardback book that was published more recently. I discovered this set of paperbacks contains very similar stories with the same set of limited vocabulary words. Some of the stories are very different than those in the hardback, but some are completely new.
"Sally" is the only one of these stories that it very close to the hardback, so this set is not a waste of money.

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Summary: The Classics Are Back.
Review: Millions of Americans grew up learning to read with help from the Dick and Jane stories. The stories were the standard reading texts in first grade for several generations. Then in the mid-1980s the education elite didn't think the stories were very good anymore: they weren't multi-cultural and didn't reflect America. So, most of those texts are gone now. Though the stories are dated, they had become part of our cultural heritage, and it was bitter-sweet to see them go.

However, many of the stories have now been released in a serial form of chapter books. Not all are in the series, but many are. Parents can now help their children learn to read using the same stories they learned to read with.

WE LOOK is the Dick and Jane story I remember the best because of that one great big word, LOOK. Besides helping children read, the books also serve as a historical guide in illustrating how society has changed since they were first published (the clothes, cars, toys, etc.). The books are worth looking at if for no other reason than that.