Alice and Jerry or Dick and Jane?

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[rsdsharp]

1. Run, Spot, run! Get Sally!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Run Sally, run! 😨

[Endlessmike56]

2. Dick and Jane

Loved the way they were drawn

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. 🤗

[Glorfindel]

3. Alice and Jerry

But it's been a very long time. I possibly may have misremembered.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. 😃

[yorkster]

4. Tom, Betty, and Susan. Plus Flip the dog.

See Tom and Flip!

[Harker]

10. I flip when I see Tom.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. 🤗

[mgardener]

5. Dick and Jane

You can get a book on Amazon with all the books.
Got it for my grandson.
He asked why they were wearing funny shoes & were not wearing sneakers!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. 😂

[Jilly_in_VA]

6. I started with Dick and Jane, but

then we moved, and that school system used Alice and Jerry, which I liked a whole lot better.

Question: does anyone remember the Martin and Judy storybooks? I had those before I started school. My mom used to read them to me and then when I started reading I read them for myself and also to my younger brothers.

[Harker]

11. I didn't move but by and by my school made the change.

Everything was "by and by" with Alice and Jerry, and I had never heard anyone say that.

Edited to correct "bye" to "by." I still haven't heard it in real life.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. 😃

[Emile]

7. Dick and Jane was used in my elementary reading classes.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. 🤗

[Solly Mack]

8. ...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. ☺️

[JoseBalow]

24. ...

[Solly Mack]

27. Yes!

[jxla]

9. John, Jean and Judy

I went to a parochial (Catholic) school. I learned about Dick, Jane & Sally later, but I've never heard of Jerry & Alice before now.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. 🤔

[electric_blue68]

12. I never even heard of Alice, and Jerry!

But I have a pretty distinct memory of seeing the Dick and, Jane, and Spot books on the? school, or regular library shelves.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

22. 🤔

[KitFox]

23. My grandma lived next door to us and taught me

to read when I was 4. Before she married my grandpa, she was a first grade teacher. When I started school in 1st grade, I was started in Dick and Jane, but was soon switched to Alice and Jerry “Down the River Road”. Thanks for the fun post evoking long ago memories 😊

[Floyd R. Turbo]

33. My pleasure!

[JoseBalow]

25. I never heard of Alice and Jerry

For me it was Sally, Dick, and Jane. And sometimes Zeppo.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

34. Zeppo the Marx Brother?

[JoseBalow]

40. Yes, Zeppo...

Sometimes!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

43. 🤗

[wcmagumba]

26. Dick and Jane rocked! Never saw an Alice and Jerry book...

[Floyd R. Turbo]

35. 😃

[Eugene]

28. I didn't know these books. My school used Jack and Janet (around 1970),

followed by Tip and Mitten.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

36. 😊

[no_hypocrisy]

29. I had Ted and Sally.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

37. 🤔

[Diamond_Dog]

31. Alice and Jerry.

Later on, Tom, Betty, Susan, and Flip the dog.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

38. 😃

[FoxNewsSucks]

32. Dick & Jane

https://imgur.com/gallery/i-am-slightly-disturbed-r4p9MkQ

[Floyd R. Turbo]

39. 😬

[electric_blue68]

44. Omg! 😄 I'd Say MORE Than "Slighty Disturbed"!!

[ucralum]

41. Janet & Mark

In kindergarten we worked on pre-reading skills--lots of letter recognition and phonics. Then in first grade we began to learn actual decoding using the Janet & Mark readers. I just looked them up; the series was first published in January of 1966 and I started first grade in Los Angeles County in September 1966.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

42. 🤗