[SoftballMominVA]

If you have “Dick, Jane, Spot, and Puff” in your background, you were taught the ‘Look-Say” method.

Proof? Look at the words “Dick” and “Jane” Both words require more information than a brand new reader possesses. The beginning readers using phonics focus on phonemes and learn families. Such as the “at” family with varying consonanat beginnings.

So yes, “Dick and Jane” kids were not taught phonetically - now that doesn’t mean that individual teachers may have inserted phonics on their own, but they did it against the then current beliefs.

[Lynne]

My school used Dick and Jane(mid-50’s), but I was reading before I started kindergarten. When the teacher found out I could read, she used me to keep the class occupied whenever she had to go out of the room (smoke, bathroom, whatever).

[Graybeard58]

now that doesn’t mean that individual teachers may have inserted phonics on their own, but they did it against the then current beliefs.

My teacher may have but that was 60 years ago. I now have to concentrate on remembering things like what I had for breakfast this morning.

I am now remembering that there was a "Sally" in that book also and "Zeke" who seemed to be always be raking leaves when the children stopped to chat with him.