I learned to read about 1950. Dick, Jane, Spot and Puff for me.
Biggest crime in American History?
In spite of raising literates and whizzes, the “smart” populace (some 340 million?) got snake oiled by Obama. All the education in the world did not help save themselves.
Biggest crime in American History?
In spite of raising literates and whizzes, the “smart” populace (some 340 million?) got snake oiled by Obama. All the education in the world did not help save themselves.
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.
Those were the books I used teaching in the mid-fiftes———and don’t forget Baby Sally.