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Dick and Jane are great books.
By Mary Wilson

Not all children learn the same. ADD children do not learn phonics easily and after 2 years of phonics. The dick and jane books carried my 8 year old grand daughter to a higher level of reading then ever before. My daughter
read teaching ADD children to read. Once she started on the program. My 8 year old grand daughter can see a word. Memorize it and spell it forward and back ward. Phonics is not the cure all for reading that people think it is. Not all children can learn phonics. ADD children do not differenciate they see the word as a whole. My 6 year old grand dauhter gets the phonics idea

well. I too was slow to read. Going into school hearing only spanish at home it took me to the thrid grade. But you know. I am an Bilingual RN. One thing about ADD people is that we multitask well.
I hope they reprint all the 1930/1940 dick and jane books. I have collected from the pre readers to the sixth grade and am having problem finding the first grade readers.
My grand children will learn stories from a less complicated world when things were fun and children had a stay at home mother and a working father.
The rest of the worlds complications they will learn in time. Right now what they need is a good home life and a good background to fall back on when they are adults and times are hard.