We Play (Read With Dick and Jane)

My mom recommend these books to help my son learn to read. The words are short, repetitive and easy. Not much baseline to the stories, but serves its purpose to help a child learn to read. These are great starter books!

Excellent book for teaching 5 year olds to read!

Nice for beginning readers

Another great book that a five year old just learning can do so with ease.

My grandson loves these. I was so pleased to find some of the books I learned to read with many years ago. Now my grandson reads them and has given him the joy of reading.

I actually ordered this as a gag gift for a septuagenarian. But all the characters and the story are exactly as we remembered. A classic. A great teach-to-read for today's little one's as well. Pictures are descriptive which make the words understandable.

These type books were the first to come to mind when I thought of teaching my 5 year old to read. It's full of sight words and he enjoys being a big boy and reading to mommy and daddy. Only give it 4 stars because the pictures are still dated and I wish the little boy was named Pete or something other than Dick.

The original book when I was 5 to learn to read in school. Its a great book and the kids love it :)

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great books for beginners

Classic book from back in the days. This is better than phonics when it comes to teaching kids to read: my 5 year old read this pretty much on his own first time round. The secret is in its use of repetition and in the gradual introduction of hard words. The pictures are brilliant, but the paper is light and is not as hard-wearing as the fifties/sixties copies that I read growing up.

In th early 60s I learned to read with these in elementary school. When my grand-daughter was 1.5 yrs I began reading them to her every evening and she was reading fluently by three. They are cute no queation, but it's the repetion and the way they build on the previous pages that make it work so well. The stories are engaging for little children and they like to hear them over and over. I always asked her to identify words and soon she was reading to me. Great teaching tool if you have the time to spend with your kids.

Dick & Jane helped my ASD son to use his good skill for sight reading to learn to read. He was lousy at phonics (even tho we still did them) but great at sight reading, so we went back to the old-school sight readers that I grew up on & he became a very confident reader. Repetitive words might seem dull to mom/dad but it increases reading confidence by familiarity of words. Worked great for us!