Who is the dog of Dick and Jane?
Dick and Jane trivial aspects of reading and left children far behind their peers in Europe. Dick and Jane Dick and Jane are the main characters in popular basal readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp and published by Scott Foresman, that were used to teach children to read from the 1930s through to the 1990s in the United States. The main characters, Dick and Jane, were a little boy and girl. Supporting characters included Baby (or Sally), Mother, Father, Spot (originally a cat in the 1930s, but a dog in later editions), Puff the cat, and Tim the teddy bear.
Dick and Jane and Company) with the vocabulary mastered in the basic readers, thus vastly improving readability in these same areas. In 1955, Rudolf Flesch criticized the "Dick and Jane" series in his book "Why Johnny Can't Read". The push for multiculturalism and stronger presentation of other races and cultures was partially a reaction to the cultural homogeneity of the series. Black characters and characters from other races and cultures were not introduced until 1965, when "Dick and Jane" books were already declining in popularity. A 2006 book entitled "Let's Kill Dick and Jane" by Harold Henderson asserted that the series focused on