Janet and John: Book One (Janet & John Series)

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We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there is something for every literary palate. All content from Kiddle encyclopedia articles (including the article images and facts) can be freely used under Attribution-ShareAlike license, unless stated otherwise. I picked up reading very quickly, and whizzed through from the big print of 1a to the small print of 12c! During the 1970s, new theories were developed on how children learn to read, and "real books" with "real stories" became increasingly popular.

NOTE: This is not the original book but a high-quality reproduction made on a professional printing machine. Turning off the personalized advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. i read janet and john at school but my real passion was for enid blyton - i loved everything she wrote!He was tested recently to ascertain his reading age and at 8y6m his results came out at 10y6m so ORT obviously did something good! By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.

There is very minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover and some foxing and marking to the front, there is some foxing to the title page and occasional minor marks elsewhere, there is also one . in fact, my classmates commented on the fact that I used to straighten up at my desk when he walked in! Story complete but revision section at the back has been cut out as has a section of the back cover. The dog was Spot, who was a black and white cocker spaniel; the cat was Puff, who was an orange marmelade, apparently all-American domestic shorthair (formerly known as an alley cat). Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand.

Using limited vocabulary, the books were based around the daily lives of a brother and sister with words frequently repeated, the idea was that children would memorise them and therefore read.

If you were at infant school in the UK during the 1950s and 1960s there is a good chance you learned to read with the Janet and John series of books.

I've always been told that I memorised all the words to "The little red hen" and knew when to turn the pages at age 2, so my Father would put me down with the book in front of his amazed friends and watch me "read" the whole book, now I know how Milli Vanilli felt when getting their award. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. age-marks, nice colour illustrations by Florence and Margaret Hoopes and Christopher Sanders, pp112 with revision word lists and Vocabulary lists to rear.

com, the Sell on Etsy app, and the Etsy app, as well as the electricity that powers Etsy’s global offices and employees working remotely from home in the US. I started school in 1973 and here in Australia we learnt to read with "Dick and Jane" and of course their pets Nip and Fluff! I remember of Janet and Jim (I think it was like that) and now I would like to get a copy of some to teach my students, with them. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Eventually there will be 30 activity books, covering maths and writing, as well as the basics of reading.Janet and John is a series of early reading books for children, originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in four volumes in 1949–50, and one of the first to make use of the "look and say" approach.