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

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While I was quite small the Government at the time saw fit to remove all Enid Blyton books from our libraries - thank goodness I had a wonderful supply of those at home! Janet and John were portrayed as average English children, living a typical middle-class life, and the books consisted of stories that progressively incorporated key words needed in the development of reading skills. Story complete but revision section at the back has been cut out as has a section of the back cover. Originally published in the UK by James Nisbet and Co in 1949 the Janet and John reading scheme was one of the first to use the “look and say” approach.

Further volumes appeared later, and the series became a sales success in the 1950s and 60s, both in the UK and in New Zealand. Items originating from areas including Cuba, North Korea, Iran, or Crimea, with the exception of informational materials such as publications, films, posters, phonograph records, photographs, tapes, compact disks, and certain artworks. Crumbs that's asking a lot, an awful lot of water has gone under the bridge since I started school in 1952! So I became my own reading group, and took out books from the school library to read while the other kids got the "Jack And Janet" series. Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centers that host Etsy.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. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.

After the books fell out of fashion they became a target for ridicule on the basis of their stilted diction and overwhelmingly middle-class content. I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. Beginning in 1949, Nisbet released a version specially published for New Zealand, with the same authors and illustrators.

I remember standing in line at the teacher's desk and waiting to read from my book; a story about rabbits; I can still remember the picture! They were one of the first popular "look-and-say" or "whole word" reading schemes, the approach being to repeat words sufficiently frequently that children memorised them – in contrast with the phonics method in which children were encouraged to decode groups of letters. The publisher claims to have jettisoned the strictures of the early stories, while hanging on to the simple basics of tales which often turned on revelatory passages such as: 'Come. This method of learning to read contrasts with the phonics method where children are encouraged to decode groups of letters, which is the method employed in most schools today.