[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Dick and Jane

Sat Nov 24 23:10:56 GMT 2012

Actually in the 70's, the nature of the basal changed again when Ken's
Reading Unlimited series came out, and Scott Foresman announced "Dick and
Jane Are Dead." The first pre-primer in the Reading Unlimited series was
priceless - "The Bus Ride." I was the reading supervisor in Newark DE at
the time and we adopted the Unlimited series. Across the street at the
University of Delaware, a young doctoral student was beginning his studies
- Tim Shanahan. A little irrelevant history

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Ken Goodman <kgoodman at u.arizona.edu> wrote:

> But the nature of the basal changed with Dick and Jane.
>
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Timothy Shanahan <shanahan at uic.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Gray did this, but he was not the lead the guy--at least not initially.
> > First, there were the Elson Readers and then the Elson-Gray Readers. Gray
> > was a co-author, but moved into the lead once Elson passed away in the
> > mid-1930s.
> >
> >
> > Timothy Shanahan
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> >
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:reading-hall-of-fame-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf
> Of
> > Ken Goodman
> > Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 8:13 AM
> > To: tsticht at znet.com
> > Cc: reading-hall-of-fame at nottingham.ac.uk
> > Subject: [Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Dick and Jane
> >
> > Gray was the principle author of Scott Foresman's series and set the form
> > for all those controlled vocabulary reading programs.
> > I started school in Chicago in 1932 and may have been among the first
> > users.
> > When dick and Jane were put out to retirement in the 70's theere was alot
> > of
> > news coverage, I joined the team of authors of reading unlimated which
> > moved
> > away from controlled vocabulary and became literature based.
> > Sometime later I got a call from a Vermont teacher who  identified
> hersellf
> > as Sally. Her father was the artist who did the illustrations. SHe was
> the
> > model for baby Sally. SHe had become a whole language teacher.
> >
> > Remember that this was an era of Freudian views that kids needed strong
> > role
> > models so the children were well behaved . Father wore a suit, Mother was
> > shown in her kitchen wearing an apron and it was several decades late
> that
> > Dick andJane were shown in play clothes.
> > The suburban setting was to give kids something to admire and aspire to.
> >
> > I don't doubt that someone was designated to monitor how the children
> were
> > dressed and that they were correctly proper.
> > Incidentally the major four figure royalties were largely from the work
> > books which were printed several hundred thousand at atime several times
> a
> > year,
> >
> > No authors were on royalty while was an author, We each got a set amount.
> > None of authors wrote any of the material in the program.
> > Ken Goodman
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 5:26 PM, <tsticht at znet.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings folks! I came across the following statement about the Dick
> > > and Jane series:
> > >
> > > quote:"Miss Zerna Sharp, known as the "Mother of Dick and Jane" was a
> > > beautiful and highly intelligent woman and deserves credit in the
> > > creation of Dick and Jane. Without Zerna, her thoughts, her beliefs,
> > > and fabulous skills, this series would never have been born." end
> > > quote
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if some of you know if this is accurate. I'd also like
> > > to know if it is accurate to refer to Willam S. Gray as "the Father of
> > > Dick and Jane"?
> > >
> > > Any thoughts?
> > >
> > > Tom Sticht
> > >
> > >
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