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	Dick and Jane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dick and Jane were the main characters in popular basal readers written by Zerna Sharp that were used to teach children to read during the 1930s through the 1960s.
		The main characters, Dick and Jane, were a little boy and girl.
		In the 1950s, 80% of first graders were using Dick and Jane in the classroom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dick_and_Jane (309 words)

	The Dance of Dick and Jane -
		Jane had been struggling with her weight since she was thirteen and was about twenty pounds overweight.
		Jane realized that the thin girls got the good-looking guys, but she felt that there was nothing that she could do about that.
		Jane's mother had recently got re-married, and she hated her stepfather - he was this creepy looking guy who used to try and throw his weight around.
	www.outdoorfun.com /dickjan1.htm (1341 words)

	Dick and Jane -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Dick and Jane were the main characters in popular (additional info and facts about basal reader) basal readers written by (additional info and facts about Zerna Sharp) Zerna Sharp used to teach children to read between the (The decade from 1930 to 1939) 1930s and (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s.
		In the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s, 80% of first graders were using Dick and Jane in the classroom.
		Funny, funny Jane," and rejected (Teaching reading by training beginners to associate letters with their sound values) phonics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/di/dick_and_jane.htm (332 words)

	We followed Dick and Jane into a bigger world... Learning to Read with Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot and Puff - Book ...
		Dick and Jane collectors should consider the Elson Readers part of their domain as well.
		Dick and Jane, Baby Sally, Spot and Puff and their friends and neighbors appeared in flimsy little paper books with staples and cloth tape spines, sturdier hard cover books, work/guide books, posters, puzzles, calendars, napkins, valentines, mugs and teacher's manuals.
		Whether or not we agree with the philosophy depicted in Dick and Jane books, or with their theories of teaching methods, no one can argue that these books depict true, rock-solid, childhood memories of the opening of another world, the adventurous world of reading.
	www.cdickens.com /articles/dickjane.htm (613 words)

	Reading Deeper: The Legacy of Dick and Jane in the Work of Clarissa Sligh (1995). Carlagirl Photo.
		Dick, the eldest child; Jane, the middle child; Sally, originally called "Baby"; and Mother and Father (along with their dog Spot, cat Puff [originally Mew], and Tim the teddy bear) were white, middle-class suburbanites in heartland America, the textbook equivalent of Norman Rockwell's covers for The Saturday Evening Post.
		The Dick and Jane method as an empirical educational model was not without its critics.
		The word "dick" is such an instantly recognizable slang for penis that in reading Sligh's work it is difficult not to snicker first at the ease with which it is adapted and then be taken aback by its obviousness.
	www.carlagirl.net /read/dickjane.html (3951 words)

	Dick and Jane Books Sally Dick and Jane
		The Dick and Jane Series are books with stories that are endlessly interesting to children, because they are life-like -- understandable -- and full of the happy surprises that children love.
		Dick, Jane, and Sally are real youngsters who play amusing pranks, dress up in father's and mother's clothes, visit grandmother and grandfather on the farm, romp with their pets, make fascinating discoveries during a spring walk in the woods, and do many of the other things that healthy, wide-awake youngsters delight in doing.
		Many of us want a Dick and Jane book because it is a part of our past,while many others want their children to learn to read from them.
	www.tagnwag.com /dick_and_jane_books.html (1337 words)

	Dick and Jane readers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Simple, repetitive sentences, colorful illustrations, and a secure, unhurried sense of childhood characterize Dick and Jane readers, a staple of American education from the 1930s through the 1960s.
		Dick and Jane textbooks, however, presented a world that was more ideal than true-to-life for many Depression-era schoolchildren, as Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman suggest in Growing Up with Dick and Jane: Learning and Living the American Dream.
		In the images below, Dick and Jane delight in their dog Spot's adventure with a frog, while the pictures encourage young readers to fill in the plot line.
	faculty.valpo.edu /bflak/dickjane/spot.html (106 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Dick and Jane Readers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		The Dick and Jane readers emphasized non-phonic sight reading and repetitive,; limited vocabulary, a formula that became a parody of itself by the time their approach was jettisoned in the tumultuous 1960s,; to be replaced by phonics and books with more diverse characters and situations.
		Dick and Jane first made their appearance in 1930, in a pre-primer of the Elson-Gray basic reader series, with stories in large type under vividly colored heavy-line illustrations set in boxes according to 1920s graphics conventions.
		The universe of the Dick and Jane readers was one of optimism and innocence, inviting criticism that the situations were unreal and stereotypical.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419100382 (1029 words)

	Fun With Dick and Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Dick and Jane are in love and living the American dream - until one day it becomes an American nightmare.
		When the company Dick works for becomes involved in an Enron-like scandal and he is confronted with the prospect of losing everything, Dick and Jane are forced to bag, borrow and steal to get it all back.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/detail/movie/1752772 (65 words)

	Variety.com - Fun with Dick and Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Further, Jane said, "Those of us who opposed the Nixon administration were being made to appear irresponsible, dangerous and foul-mouthed." And she denied making any threats against Nixon's life.
		Jane spent Sunday watching her first film in 15 years, "Monsters-In-Law." She viewed it alone (on disc) and told me, "I liked it.
		Jane tells me she will be accompanied to the L.A. preem by son Troy Garrity, who will costar in "Lake City" with Cissy Spacek for producer Mark JohnsonMark Johnson.
	www.variety.com /av_result.asp?articleid=VR1117920596&nid=2564 (779 words)

	Yiddish with Dick and Jane
		Dick and Jane are all grown up, and they're living in the real world-and it's full of tsuris (troubles).
		Jane is a real estate agent with a mensch of a husband and Dick is a businessman who golfs and schmoozes with his business associates.
		Jane is married to a mensch, Bob, and they have two lovely kids, as well as a dog and cat.
	www.lexiconer.com /bookstore/item.php?id=415 (1264 words)

	A Sample Household Budget
		Jane is paid every two weeks and brings home a check for $500.00 each pay day.
		Now, if you assume that Dick will be paid four times a month and Jane will be paid twice a month, their total combined net income appears to be $2,400.00 per month.
		By using their budget Dick and Jane are confident in the knowledge that they will never find themselves spending more money than what they will earn.
	www.dacomp.com /sample.html (914 words)

	Dick and Jane readers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Two-page spread from an early Dick and Jane reader.
		Jane receives not one, not two, but three dolls for her birthday.
		Thank you, Professors Ann Reiser and Jim Bond for the loan of Dick and Jane materials.
	faculty.valpo.edu /bflak/dickjane (88 words)

	Amazon.com: Growing Up with Dick and Jane : Learning and Living the American Dream: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Growing up with Dick and Jane is a simply presented but often amusing analysis of American popular culture and educational theories through the looking glass of the Dick and Jane readers.
		And side by side with the story of Dick and Jane is an entertaining and informative text that tracks important historical, social and educational events of the "Dick and Jane era."
		Growing Up with Dick and Jane traces the Dick and Jane phenomenon from their birth during the Depression to their retirement in the stormy 1960s.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0006492460?v=glance (1611 words)

	McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Dick and Jane Reader for Advanced Students
		Dick unpacked a stew with fish in it.
		Jane asked, "What is that funny smell?" Then she remembered her manners and put on a happy face.
		Jane breathed through her nose and thought, There must be an easier way to keep a man.
	www.mcsweeneys.net /2003/11/07kennedy.html (711 words)

	Remodeling : Extreme : Dick and Jane's Spot : Home & Garden Television
		The sculptures in the yard began when Dick made a few; then Jane felt she should put her own work out there too.
		Most of Dick's recent work involves light: pieces made of bottles, reflectors, bicycle wheels, etc. Dick estimates that every year, some 1,000 people come to Ellensburg just to see their house, which got its name from the Dick and Jane Reader, their dog named Spot, and their business, also named Spot.
		With their names also being Dick and Jane, it was an obvious choice.
	www.hgtv.com /hgtv/rm_architecture_extreme/article/0,,HGTV_3662_1376738,00.html (232 words)

	Amazon.com: Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Of course "Fun with Dick and Jane" is a less than subtle attack on the vulgarity of the American middle-class.
		The comedy comes from seeing the trouble Dick and Jane have in dealing with being poor; apparently it is easier to function with nothing if you never had anything in the first place.
		My favorite scenes are when Dick and Jane's unpaid for front lawn is repossessed by the local nursery and when the aspiring robbers are applauded by customers when they rob the phone company.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/630368677X?v=glance (1350 words)

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		When we say this, we mean that it is at least twelve and not yet thirteen years since Dick was born.
		Dick and Jane have three pets: Spot the dog, Puff the Cat, and Yertle the Turtle.
		The sum of Spot's age, Puff's age, and Yertle's age equals the sum of Dick's age (d) and Jane's age (j).
	acm.uva.es /p/v102/10257.html (145 words)

	JIM CARREY ONLINE - Fun With Dick And Jane
		Jane goes in for medical experiments, they trade in the Range Rover for a Geo and start paying the nanny in Cuisanards.
		Jane wants in and to be his wheelman.
		A remake of the feature film "Fun with Dick and Jane" (1977) which starred Jane Fonda and George Segal based on a novel by Gerald Gaiser.
	www.jimcarreyonline.com /movies/dickandjane.html (3901 words)

	USATODAY.com - See 'Dick and Jane' again (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		After 30 years in exile, Dick and Jane, the plucky pair that taught two generations of American children to read, are back in print.
		While some may believe Dick and Jane taught them phonics —; the widely accepted instruction method that helps children deconstruct words with repetitive "rat sat on a mat" practice — it's more likely that kids learned phonics in spite of Dick and Jane.
		Anyone who learned to read in the last century got at least a taste of phonics, but the Dick and Jane stories actually were a calculated attack on phonics: The authors believed children learned to read best by memorizing a small handful of "sight words" and repeating them over and over — the "look/say" method.
	www.usatoday.com /life/books/news/2004-02-25-dick-and-jane-main_x.htm (1224 words)

	Yiddish With Dick and Jane: The Official Store of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		In an inspired parodic twist, the two least Jewish characters in American literature spout some of the edgy, ironic Yiddishisms that have become part of the American vernacular.
		Dick and Jane use terms that convey an attitude--part plucky self-assertion, part ironic fatalism.
		When Dick schmoozes, when Jane kvetches, when their children fressnoodles at a Chinese restaurant, the clash of cultures produces genuine hilarity.
	www.tenement.org /Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=lestm&Product_Code=YDJ (147 words)

	Fun with Dick and Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		Revisit your academic roots with this all-porcelain edition of Dick and Jane.
		Dick is dressed in his favorite red and white, hand-knit sweater over brown short pants.
		Jane wears a perky dotted dress with a hand-knit cardigan and tam.
	www.lawtondolls.com /FunWithDick.html (138 words)

	Powell's Books - Yiddish with Dick and Jane by Ellis Weiner
		Jane is married to Bob and has two perfect children.
		Schmooze....' Their sister, Sally, who teaches a course in 'Transgressive Feminist Ceramics,' can see that life is not perfect, even though dear Dick and Jane cannot.
		Their mother has a stroke ('Oy vey, Jane,' says Dick when he learns the news).
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0316159727-0 (402 words)

	Dick and Jane's Spot
		Dick and Jane made most of the art you see but we also collect art.
		Dick and Jane’s Spot is the Cat’s Meow
		Perhaps it is the same giant whose hand waves from the front of the house.
	www.reflectorart.com /spot (205 words)

	Dick : Jane : Spot
		Dick and Jane’s Spot is an art site and our home.
		Dick is working on commissions for light rail projects in Seattle and Charlotte NC.
		Jane’s current paintings are an expression of her connection to the dream world.
	www.reflectorart.com (241 words)

	Dick and Jane 2000
		Dick and Jane IV was held Saturday September 16, 2000 under the beautiful, sunny warm skies of Madison, and everybody seemed to enjoy the day.
		Dick and Jane players generously donated over $550 to the American Cancer Society.
		Both of these teams were first-timers at Dick and Jane.
	www.mufa.org /dj/dj4.html (451 words)

	languagehat.com: YIDDISH WITH DICK AND JANE.
		Another parody of Dick and Jane is a cartoon skit which appears on the children's reading program, "Between the Lions." It is titled "Chicken Jane."
		Dick and Jane say Little Brown has no right to copy.
		Dick and Jane say Little Brown hurts sales.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/001712.php (1134 words)

	Dick and Jane: Illustrations of an American Education
		The classic illustrated book series "Dick and Jane" is the subject of the exhibition Dick and Jane: Illustrations of an American Education at the Norton Museum of Art from November 15, 1997 to January 25, 1998.
		"Dick and Jane" was a standard school text for the over 85 million people who learned to read from the 1930s through the 1960s.
		The "Dick and Jane" stories featured the characters Mother, Father, Dick, Jane, Sally and Spot, and their happy lives in an untroubled world.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsmu/nmus18d.htm (716 words)

	Loganberry Books: Dick and Jane primers
		(1927-1960s) Dick and Jane primers flourished in the late '40s and '50s when post-war affluence promised a protected world of childhood innocence.
		Aside from the educational nostalgia, these primers reflect a society now past, and are as remarkable for this depiction as for their influence on American education.
		Of course, the catholic version of Sally Dick and Jane was Judy John and Jean and the 7th Day Adventist version was Friends We Know.
	www.logan.com /loganberry/coll-dick-jane.html (1732 words)

	Jane Zatta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-08)
		I'm sorry to announce the news that Professor Jane Zatta died January 12th at her family's home in Georgia after a long bout with cancer.
		Jane Dick Zatta, age 58, of Edwardsville, died on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2005, at the residence of her sister.
		She was born in Atlanta, Ga., the daughter of the late Jackson Jr.
	www.unc.edu /depts/chaucer/zatta.htm (360 words)

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