Mine was Tip and Mitten, too! I thought I was going crazy because people always talk about Dick & Jane. Wasn't Tip the dog and Mitten the kitten?

Up here in Canada, mine was Dick & Jane. Sally was their baby sister, Spot was their dog, Puff was their cat.

I never read about Tip and mitten.

My first books was about Dick and Jane, and Spot and seeing them run.

See Spot run!

See Dick run!

See Jane run!

Sue...who also saw Dick and Jane fall down.

I thought I was all alone!
My first reader was Tip and Mitten. Dick and Jane were used by my neighbor who went to a Catholic school. Early 60's

No you're not crazy Missindia2020. Tip and Mitten did exist. Tip and Mitten were pets of Jack and Janet and they had a little sister Penny. "Run Tip run. No Tip no. Come Tip. Come here Tip...."LOL I can remember it so well.
I actually own a teachers big book of Tip and Mitten that is about 36" tall. My brother-in-law was once on our school board and when cleaning out the old school's storage room found it and gave it to me. I took it to my 35th class reunion this past year and everyone got a kick out of it and recognized it right away.

RE: Tip and Mitten-Forgot to add Jack and Janet were the next in the series.Then, Away We Go, Why can I remember these things, yet I can't remember how old my children are?

Yes Noni and then there was "The Big Top" I think it's about Jack, Janet and Penny going to the circus.

I feel so old!!!!

Dick and Jane here too! Funny I just ran across my Dick and Jane workbook two days ago. Now that is old. LOL

Dick and Jane here too, back in the early '60's. I remember when eventually we graduated to a page that just had printing on it and no pictures. I really thought I was a big girl then.

I loved to read then and I still love to read now. It was like learning a secret!

I don't remember my first grade reader. I was already reading a bit at home before even starting kindergarten. My older brother had the Dick and Jane books.I do know that the class was taught phonetically not by sight reading (ie Dick and Jane). I was always put in the advanced group and my teacher would give me extra books to read at home for pleasure.

My kids learned in pre-school. Phonics again using the "Pug" series of books.

Dick and Jane here also and that was about 1944,45.Makes me feel old to say that.LOL
Kathi

I think I was taught phonetically later on, we had to "sound out " the words.For some reason my mother would not give me permission to go on some field trips so my teacher would send me to a lower class so I could read books to them.

A fun note: my sister taught my sons and hers how to read before they went to school and one of her sons had the word laughed in a sentence he was reading and it came out like this:
"He lay uh gah head, and lay uh gah head, and lay uh gah head." it was a dear family memory

I remember Dick and Jane, of course, but did any of you have the Alice and Jerry readers in first grade? Their dog was named Jip, I think.

In Australia it was Dick and Dora, and their pets Nip and Fluff. No prizes for guessing what the pets were :-)

I remember learning form Dick and Jane readers. V ery slow. Very dull. I remember seriously telling Mom that I did not want to read. It seemed such a struggle to read such a dull story. Pointless.

Oh I am lay a gah ing now!

Like I said, I grew up on Dick and Jane but my cousins on the other side of town had Alice and Jerry and I always wondered what I was missing (even though beginning stories are always so boring!)

Neesie, you missed a lot of Jerry looking and Alice running.

I am 43 years old I remember sitting on my uncles bed eating Oreo cookies and reading tip and mitten! for some reason I remember there being other stories in that book also! Something about pigs! Do you or anyone else remember this, or am I going crazy lol!

I started kindergarten in 1971. We didn't have the Dick & Jane reader but my older brother and sisters did so it was in the house and I remember reading it. My first reader was called Hickory Hollow. I remember sitting in a semi-circle in class listening to the teacher read it, we had workbooks and there must have been a tape or record because I remember the beginning few words of the song "Down in Hickory Hollow".

Well, we did not have Dick and Jane or Tip and Muffin. We had Tom, Nancy and I think Sandy. I still have some of the books. Later on after I was past those grades, our school had Dick and Jane.

Sue

so I would have been in first grade in 1952, and los angeles used dick and jane...I can't believe what the difference was when I first saw a mcguffy reader...so much more difficult..sad to say how they dumbed-down reading...

I was in first grade in 1957, in Catholic school, and we had David and Ann. If they had pets, I don't remember. I'm not totally sure we were reading in first grade, it may have been second. I remember we had Phonics.

If I remember correctly, Dick & Jane had a dog (Spot) and a cat (Puff). I love orange cats possibly because my first memory of a cat was Puff who was orange. My goodness, that was back in 1950!

My first reader was Tip. Then, Tip and Mitten. We also had the Dick and Jane books, and Up and Away.

My copy of Tip had some pages that were smudged with dirt. I was so upset! Told my mother that I really didn't think I wanted to learn to read.

My reader was "Dick and Jane". I still remember the opening lines: Dick. See Dick. See Dick run.

I have my dad's reader from early 1900s. Another one of his school books was Aesop's Fables.

I also had Dick and Jane as one of my first school books in the early 1960's as well as Mr. Whiskers which I preferred. I am always on the look out for the first Mr. Whiskers book when I go to thrift shops

It's a wonder any of us ever wanted to read again after being subjected to those boring primers. I don't remember what I learned to read from back in 1948 or 49.

Fortunately I already knew how to read before entering first grade, because it was those horridly boring Dick and Jane things. I finished the book immediately just to get it done with, and went on to read interesting stuff instead. Gag.

I don't remember what our stories were back in the late '30s - but not Dick and Jane ... I remember one about the cold wind and the sun trying to get someone to take off his coat ... that the guy held on tight to his coat in the strong cold wind ... then shucked it easily (possibly with a smile) when the sun shone down.

ole (forgetful) joyfuelled

Wow. OJ, I don't remember what the story was called either, and I'm decades later, but I know that story about the sun and the wind.

When I was four I asked to be shown how to read, and my folks had Fun with Dick and Jane, which had been left behind by a primary teacher (Mother's past roommate), so that was my first reading book. My father told me the words in the first two chapters, said, "Now you know how to read, kid," and left me to it. I'd occasionally ask what a new word was, then go back to reading. This was a lot different than my other books, like Dr. Seuss(many titles), Hello, Peter and The Snowy Day, because it's not really reading when you already know the story and remember the words. The stories in Fun with Dick and Jane might have been silly, but they were all new to me and I read the whole book. And then I read everything else. :)

The reader we had in first grade, even though it was the first one in the series, was less beginning--the beginning groups had charts and workbooks--and the stories were more like actual stories. The only thing I remember, besides an orange cover, was that there was a grandmother who lived on a farm and spoke really good English and behaved differently than any of the grandmothers I'd ever met, let alone just mine.

This was mine, late 70s

http://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/roger-red-hat.html