TagNwag Books - Dick and Jane Book List

Not sure which Dick and Jane book you used in school or which your child will benefit the most from right now?
My list below shows the primers and readers, from the 1920's through the 1960's.
From the 1930's on my list shows which grade the book was designed for and if they are
for the first-half of the grade, or second-half.

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Pre Dick and Jane - 1920's

Pupil's Hand Chart - Primer Years
"The Little Primer"

Hand Chart Course-of-Study Manual
This manual, 120 pages, contains lessons, lesson by lesson,
complete and detailed instruction for teaching the Elson Foundation Unit with
descriptions of games, songs, occupational work, stories to tell the children, dramatizations, etc.
The regular edition of the Pupil's Hand Chart is bound in the back for great convenience.

Hand Chart Word and Phrase Cards (Flash Cards) - Primer Years
A box that contained 73 word cards for flash card drill on words taught in
the Foundation Unit, and 104 phrase cards for enlarging the pupil's
eye span of recognition. The word cards are 5 x 9-1/2 and
the phrase cards were 3-1/4 x 15

Hand Chart Silent Reading Seat Work Cards - Primer Years
8 cut-out cards, 11 exercises, size 6 x 12, providing silent reading drill,
story building and crayoning

Hard Chart Action Sentence Cards - Primer Years
60 cards, size 4-1/2 x 21-1/2, that provided interesting and varied drill material
for the development of rapid and accurate visual perception and comprehension

Hand Chart Picture Cards - Primer Years
9 cards,  double sided pictures, size 7 x 12. Pictures of Father, Mother, Boy, Girl,
Tree, etc that were use in associating words with the object they stood for.

Wall Chart - Primer Years
36 Pages, size 22-1/2 x 30 inches. Coincides in pictures and text
with the Pupil's Hand Chart, but is printed in Black only.
Publicized in Wall Chart form for great convenience in group work and review.

The Elson Readers - First Grade through Eighth Grade
Child-Library Readers - First Grade through Eighth Grade

Dick and Jane - 1930's

The Elson Basic Readers
- Volumes -
Pre-Reader, Pre-Primer, Primer, Books 1 through 8

Dick and Jane - 1940's

Before We Read
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

Before We Read
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words

We Look and See
1st Pre-Primer - begins to introduce words

We Come and Go
2nd Pre-Primer

We Work and Play
3rd Pre-Primer

Fun with Dick and Jane
First Grade, First Half - Primer

Our New Friends
First Grade, Second Half - First Reader

Friends and Neighbors
Second Grade, First Half

More Friends and Neighbors
Second Grade, Second Half

Streets and Roads
Third Grade, First Half

More Streets and Roads
Third Grade, Second Half

Times and Places
Fourth Grade

Days and Deeds
Fifth Grade

People and Progress
Sixth Grade

Paths and Pathfinders
Seventh Grade

Wonders & Workers
Eighth Grade

Reading for Independence—1940's

Book A 1st Book
We Three
(1947)

Book B 2nd Book
What Next
(1947)

Book C 3rd Book
Tall Tales
(1948)

Dick and Jane - 1950's

New We Read Pictures
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

New We Read More Pictures
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

New Before We Read
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

New We Look and See
1st Pre- Primer - begins to introduce words

New We Work and Play
2nd Pre-Primer

New We Come and Go
3rd Pre-Primer

Guess Who
Junior Primer - designed for slower readers

New Fun with Dick and Jane
Primer - First Grade, First Half

New Our New Friends
1st Reader - First Grade, Second Half

New Friends and Neighbors
Second Grade, First Half

New More Friends and Neighbors
Second Grade, Second Half

New Streets and Roads
Third Grade, First Half

Just Imagine!
Third Grade, First Half
Transitional Reader for slower learners

New More Streets and Roads
Third Grade, Second Half

Times and Places
Fourth Grade, First Half

More Times and Places
Fourth Grade, Second Half

Days and Deeds
Fifth Grade, First Half

More Days and Deeds
Fifth Grade, Second Half

People and Progress
Sixth Grade, First Half

More People and Progress
Sixth Grade, Second Half

Paths and Pathfinders
Seventh Grade

Parades
Seventh Grade

More Parades
Seventh Grade

Wonders and Workers
Eigth Grade

Panoramas
Eigth Grade

More Panoramas
Eigth Grade

Book A 1st Book
We Three
(1952)

Book B 2nd Book
What Next
(1952)

Dick and Jane - 1960's

We Read Pictures
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

We Read More Pictures
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

Before We Read
Pre-Reader - Picture book, no words
developmental activities for the pre-reading period

Sally Dick and Jane
Pre - Primer, begins to introduce words

Now We Read
Pre - Primer, 1965 Revision to Sally Dick and Jane

Fun with Our Family
Pre - Primer, Follows Now We Read

Fun with The Family
Pre - Primer, 1965 Revision to Fun with Our Family

Fun Wherever We Are
Pre - Primer

New Guess Who
Junior Primer designed for slower readers

Fun with Our Friends
Primer First Grade, First half

More Fun with Our Friends
1st Reader - First Grade, Second half

Friends Old and New
Second Grade, First Half

More Friends Old and New
Second Grade, Second Half

Just Imagine
Third Grade
Transitional Reader for slower learners

Roads to Follow
Third Grade, First Half

More Roads to Follow
Third Grade, Second Half

Ventures
Fourth Grade

More Times and Places
Fourth Grade, Second half

Cavalcades
Fifth Grade

New Days and Deeds
Fifth Grade, first half

More Days and Deeds
Fifth Grade, second half

New People and Progress
Sixth Grade

More People and Progress
Sixth Grade, Second half

Dimensions
Seventh Grade

Challenges
Eigth Grade

Book 2 - 2nd Book
The New What Next, Part 1
(1959, 1963)

Book 3 - 2nd Book
The New What Next, Part 2
(1959, 1964)

Book 4 - 3rd Book
The New Tall Tales, Part 1
(1959, 1964)

Book 5 - 3rd Book
The New Tall Tales, Part 2
(1959, 1964)

Plus - the Social Studies books
At Home (the primer)
At School
In the Neighborhood
In City, Town, and Country
In All Our States
In the Americas
Beyond the Americas
In the Americas

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Open Highways Readers
Developmental Reading Program

This series was used in conjunction with the Dick and Jane books (the New Basic Readers),
and are defined as "a diagnostic and developmental reading program".

Authored By: Helen M. Robinson, Marion Monroe, A. Sterl Artley, Charlotte S. Huck,
William A. Jenkins, and Ira E. Aaron. Linguistic Advisor, W. Cabell Greet.

Open Highways ~ Book 1 Part 1
Ready To Roll

STORIES: Goldilocks and the Three Bears, How to Make a Puppet, A New Home for Melvin, City Child, Shadow Tag, My Shadow, Shadows, Wild Animals at the Zoo, Farm Animals at the Zoo, Animal Riddle, The Little Red Hen, Bill and Jill, Where's Wendy?, Hey, Diddle, Diddle!, How to make a Cutout, Herman the Helicopter

Open Highways ~ Book 1 Part 2
ROLLING ALONG

STORIES: Bookish, A Joke, The Little Old Woman and How she Kept Her Geese Warm, How to Make a Sock Puppet, The Old Woman and the Pig, I Had a Little Pig, Coats for Katie and Carmen, Storm, Rain, An Umbrella Joke, A New Place for Old Comic Books, The Gingerbread Boy, Mystery at the Old Shack, A Kitten, A Horse in Box Canyon, More About Helicopters, How to Make a Helicopter, Debbie Is a Tattletale, Tony's Surprise, Circle of Life, The Tickle Rhyme, Cocoon, How to Get an Ice Cream Cone, This Man Went Away, Albert and the Big Balloon, John's Balloon.

Open Highways ~ Book 2 Part 1
MORE POWER

STORIES: Pogo Leaves the Circus, Holding Hands, Look! Eddie Can Read, Laugh Time, Junk Day on Juniper Street, Ring Ross, A Gift You Can Make, The King's Gold, hard-Hat Jobs, Lollipop Surprise, Jimmy's Pocket-Aunt, Candy for Dinner, Peanut Butter Creams, Sylvester, Oh, Susanna!, The Seven Little Pifflesniffs, Sneezing, Billy's Find, My Puppy, My Friend Charlie, Things Not to Do, Laugh Time Again, Excitement on Appleby Street, But Then, Zoie the Zebra, Zachary for Z, Pictionary.

Open Highways ~ Book 2 Part 2
MOVING AHEAD

STORIES: Wanted--One Mouse, Mice, Mr. Dawson Has Cold Feet, The Hare and the Tortoise, The Little Turtle, Water, A Green Plant, Tommy, The Spy Next Door, The Mailbox Birdhouse, Mailbox Wren, Too Many, Frog Sitters, Frogs, A Frog Went A-Courting, Laugh Time, Sweet Porridge, A Baseball Player, Make a Baseball Game, Bingo, Danger in the Dark, A Rain Riddle, One Little Drum, Pictionary.

Open Highways ~ Book 3 Part 1
SPLENDID JOURNEY

STORIES: The Greatest Machine in the World, Pick Your Own Junk, Noise!, The Robots, ABC, The Dinosaur Egg, Fish, There's a Hole in the Middle of the Sea, An Old Story from Hawaii, Big Waves and Little Waves, Sammy Shows Off, A Page from Sammy's Book, Tug of War, Herman the Hippo Is Lost, Herman the Hippo Is Found, Playtime Around the World, Penning the Pigs, Cat in the Hardware Store, The Girl and the Milk Pail, The North Wind and The Sun, Hennessey, The Surprise, On Top of Spaghetti, Early Men, The First Dishes, Stone Sculpture, Stone Soup, Glossary.

Open Highways ~ Book 3 Part 2
SPEEDING AWAY

STORIES: Clip-Clop, Shadow, Pecos Bill, Tall Tales About STrange Critters, The Desert, The Day in the Desert, Chuka's Hawk, Sand Painting, The Story of William Penn, Indian Steelworkers, Giraffe Cartoon, The People Downstairs, I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed a Fly), Riddles About States, A Great Land, The Wind from the Sea, Go Wind, A Candle in the Night, Snowy Coconut Treats, Pioneers in Space, Local Boy Wins Space Ship, The Ship from Zurn, Who's in Charge of Lincoln, Glossary.

Open Highways ~ Book 4

STORIES: Shoeshine Boy, Games to Play Outside in the City, A Game to Play Inside in the City or Anywhere, The Story of Mulberry Bend, Ideal American, Wang's Fourth, Really?, A Dish You Can Eat, Swimming Hole, A True Tale, Just Call Me Bob, Mechanical Pitchers, Grin and Bear It, Blaze and the Mountain Lion, Fun with Riddles, One Good Turn, The Great Almost, The Wright Brothers, Tower to the Moon, Ski Dog, Grin and Bear It, Let's Ski, An Extra Indian, Indian, Air Force Museum, Wright Brothers Honored, Finding Christmas, Jungle in the Sky, Savage Encounter, More Savage Encounter, The Case of the Missing Homework, Invisible Inks, SOS Adventure, The Morse Code, The Talking Mill, Rudolph Is Tired of the City, A Bird Feeder to Make, Game-Bird Savers, A Boy and His Dog, The Frog and the Ox, Abraham Lincoln, Wilderness Whodunit, Boy with a Harpoon, The Making of a Sourdough, Paul Bunyan the Work Giant, First in Peace, More Fun with Riddles, Dolly Madison, Children in the White House, A Common Bond, A Night at Cousin Alma's, The Left-Over Hat, Cartoon Caper, A Magic Show for Your Friends, Dr. Dan, Shantyboat Boy, Keziah, A Perch Primer, Picnic for Elmer, A Lantern for Liberty, Lyle, How Suspenders Came to Texas, The Radish Cure, Poems from Freddy the Pig, Counting Out Rhymes, The Very Queer Ball Game, Dinosaurs, Vern, See a White Horse.

Open Highways ~ Book 5

STORIES: Wacky Words, The Case of the Scattered Cards, Can You Believe Your Eyes?, The Picnic Mystery, BonersQ, Viva Monterrey!, Peanuts, Letters to the Mets, The Year There Was No Summer, Weather Folklore, Weather or Not!, Pirates of Yesterday, The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee, Pirates Take Over Tampa, Ernestine and Substance X, What's New?, Garrett Morgan, Man of Ideas, Noodles, Nitwits and Numskulls, Ookie the Walrus, Pete at the Zoo, Getting Animals for the Zoo, Bring 'Em Back Alive, Frank Buck and the Man-Eating Tiger, Always Something!, Can You Believe Your Eyes?, Walk Like a Pioneer, The Gulls, Castaways in Space, Satellite, Satellite, Space Capers, Like This and Like That, Six Wives Who Ate Onions, The Dancing Stars, The Farmer Astronomer, A Simple Telescope, Gary Stands Guard, Sports Capers, How to Be a Good Defensive Player, Code of Signals for Basketball Officials, Tar Traps of Time, Down with Dinosaurs!, Memo from a Meadow Mouse, The Best Place for a Dinosaur Bone, How to Dig Up a Bone, A Pocketful of Pride, An Outboard Motor, Rivers Are to Cross, The Legend of John Henry, The Broken Lantern, The Dangerous Days of Railroading, Railroad Slang, Who Can Break a Bad Habit, Don't Ever Cross a Crocodile, Eight Against Death, If You're Lost, Battlefield Cameraman, Goober Peas, The News Photographer, Alley at the Back of Things, Trapped in the Earth, Earthquake in Anchorage, Night of Terror, Michael Scott and the Demon, Really?, Don't Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, The Magic Sandals, Medals for the Brave, The Matchbox Fleet, The Peoples of Mols, Poems from Beyond the High Hills, Eskimo Boy, Glossary.

Open Highways ~ Book 6

STORIES: A Rodeo! What's That?, Truck Drivers' Dictionary, An Unusual Hobby, Chester's New Suit, Code of Signals for Football Officials, The Ernie Davis Story, What's Going On Here?, Christopher Columbus, The Story of Chocolate, Happy Election Day, Chocolate Fudge, Adventures of Thomas O'Toole, The King and the Cats, The Mysterious Cats, Camels Go West, The Plaint of the Camel, Jefferson Davis and Operational Camel, Hadji Ali, Hi Jolly, The King's Contest, The Adventures of Suzy Sherlock, How Good a Witness Would You Be?, The Mad Dog, Louis Pasteur, Cars of Yesterday, Heroic Years of the Automobile, America's First "Fill 'Er Up!" Stations. Bluey, Locating Information, Animals of Australia, Christmas Day Weather, Fair Today, Followed by Tomorrow, Bottle Barometer, Space, Are There Men On Mars?, Men in Space, Orbiting English, More Orbiting English, An Adventure with the Gods, Like Knights of Old, Arthur Becomes King, Armor and Weapons of Long Ago, Terry's Troubles, City Moods, City Poems, Country Moods, America the Beautiful, Gertrude, The Case of the Sensational Scent, the Game of Seven Errors, Really?, A Dream Come True, A Picture Visit to the FBI, Why Fingerprint Identification?, Fingerprint Yourself, Twenty Minutes to Zero, A Tool of Demolition, Miracle over the Ruhr, The Escape, Dog Paratroopers, Dog Daze, Sidelights on Aviation, What Makes a Jet Plane Work?, A Spear for Omar, Adventuring Underwater, Elephants!, Animals Around the World, Riddles Around the World, Burma Boy, Glossary.

Open Highways ~ Book 7

STORIES: Funny Photos, Bull Pen Catcher,Through the Clubhouse Doors, Do You Know?, Peter the Great, Find It Yourself, Library II, What Is Wrong With this Picture?, The Story Behind the Word, Can You Read This?, Just Fun, Escape by Sea (Alexander Dumas), The Eagle and Me (E. V. Harburg), Road to Freedom (Langston Hughes), Nature's Wonderland, Yellowstone (Irving Robert Melbo), Our National Parks, This Land Is Your Land (Woody Guthrie), Gulliver the Great, Hidden Pictures, The Phantom Submarines, How to Make a Periscope, Nessie, Updating the News, Looking for Something?, Metaphor, Shortest Boy in the Class, The Crazy Moth Balls, The Crazy Mixed-Up Schoolteacher, Lobo, The Twilight Rider, The Man Who Became A Mustang, So You Think You Know The West?, The Lost Gold of the Superstitions, The Phantoms, King of the Road, What Is Your Horsepower?, The Fast Sooner Hound, Comparative Speeds of Animals, ....That Others May Live, The Busiest Machine in the Air, Mystery Word, The New Girl, Cocoa-Peanut Chews, Food For Thought, Gullible People, Frightened Town, The Case of the Missing Fromage, Miss Hinch, Fire in the Earth, Into the Heart of a Volcano, The Man who Invented The Future, A Journey To The Center of the Earth, One of the Family, A Special Fortuneteller, Skyscrapers, Air Can Burn Steel, Tom Sawyer Pirate, The Elk Tooth Dress, Watusi Dancers, The Lion, Masai Spearmen: Bravest of the Brave, The Trojan Horse, A Dream That Came True, Archaeologist's Discovery, The Wooden Horse, Escape Secrets, Can You Believe Your Eyes?, A Night in the Old House, House Porch, City Roofs, Half a Gift, Ghost of the Lagoon, Bottle, Ahoy!, Voyage of the Kon-Tiki, KON-TIKI AND I, Answers, Glossary

Open Highways ~ Book 8

STORIES: Lights Out!, Smelly Kelly, Good For Nothing, Thank You m'am (Langston Hughes), How Can You Tell, Can't Get there From Here Mebbe, Acts For Comedy Shows, Fun With Words, I Swam For 21 Hours, Realist, The Cement Truck, Ripley's Believe It Or Not, You're Tougher Than You Think, World Records, Toughen Up!, Straighten Up!, The Fun They Had, How to Construct A Mechanical Teacher, Channel Chuckles, Learning to Cartoon, To Satch, Maybe I'll Pitch Forever, The Horse That Played The Outfield, How to Read a Baseball Box Score, Pitch-Out, Test Your Memory, Henry Reed's Baby-Sitting Service, Teen Scene, Helpful Hints for Baby-Sitters, What Is It?, Hats on a Hero, Homesick, Most Conspicuous Courage, Stop the Car!, What's it About?, Mountain in a City, Up High, Rocky Mountain Rescue, In Case of Fire, Wacky Words, Deadly Aim, Along the Snake Fence Way, Snakes, Three-Minute Friendships, What Would You Have done?, Ask Henry, Peanuts, How to Analyze Handwriting, Four Months Afloat, I Like It Here!, A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Apartment House, Nobody's Business, Speak Up!, Mass Production, A Letter to the Boss, Find the Mistakes, Granville T. Woods, Computers, Computer Cartoons, The Rain King, Tornado Coming!, Forecasting a Tornado, Saving a City From a Cloud of Death, Wayo - Man With Smart Brain, Africa USA, The Snake In The Bottle, Everybody Loves Saturday Night, Washtub Bass Fiddle, A Mule Named Tony, Teen Scene, The Visit, Perpetual Calendar, The Star Ducks, Newspaper Boners, Remember Me When This You See, The 23rd Street Crusaders, Answers, Glossary.

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