Comment on Janet and John Books
I taught both my children and grandchildren to read before they all started school.I now would like my great-grandchildren to have the same advantage. These primary readers had to be the best ever teachers of phonetics that I have used.
Comment on Janet and John Books posted 2007-09-10 by M.Armitage from Jersey C.I.
Comment on Janet and John Books
I was taught to read long before I started school and got through the entire JJ series in the first week. Why I still remember that the last page of book 1 had an Aeroplane on it I don't know maybe it was the only "hard" word in it. Another tradition murdered by the PC brigade.
Comment on Janet and John Books posted 2007-08-23 by Alan Johnson from Surrey
Comment on Janet and John Books
I was taught to read long before I started school and got through the entire JJ series in the first week. Why I still remember that the last page of book 1 had an Aeroplane on it I don't know maybe it was the only "hard" word in it. Another tradition murdered by the PC brigade.
Comment on Janet and John Books posted 2007-08-23 by Alan Johnson from Surrey
Comment on Janet and John Books
I don't think Janet and John books are iconic of England. When we had them at school they always seemed to relate to a sunny, fictional and very dull world quite separate from my own life and described in language I would never use. The Oxford reading tree used by today's children would be a far better choice I think, and will mean a lot to tomorrow's adults.
Comment on Janet and John Books posted 2007-06-27 by Trista Selous from London
Comment on Janet and John Books
An English language icon, but not necessarilly an icon of England. The original Janet and John titles were originally written by Rona Monro, a teacher from New Zealand, whose American husband worked for the publishers Nisbet, which devised the American reading scheme - Alice and Jerry - on which Janet and John is based.
Comment on Janet and John Books posted 2006-03-02 by Taxus from Medway
Comment on Janet and John Books
You're having a laugh -'icon'? The mnost limited, sexist, middle-class, anodyne vehicle for what should be a values-free experience (formative reading). 21st century versions remain outmoded and exclusive. So much more is available out there for formative readers; work of fabulous educational,social and political quality.
Comment on Janet and John Books posted 2008-08-13 by Neelia from Edinburgh