Don Coatney Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 A recent thread on primers got me to thinking about my first primer. I believe I still have it somewhere. This primer taught me how to read, spell, and use punctuation when I was very young. How many others here recall and used these books for an early education? Too bad the kids today dont have such a learning tool. Quote
Young Ed Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 I remember reading similar books. If I recall they only had 1 sentence per page/picture when I was reading them. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 Dick Jane and Spot..went from red to green to the blue primers if my memory serves me correct Quote
PatS.... Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 I think I still have mine, too. (How did I do?) Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 actually after the first reading I could go on to other books and had no need to keep mine...(oooh that was looooooow) I'll go stand against the blackboard with my nose in the circle of chalk...! Quote
randroid Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 Don, I read the 'Dick and Jane' books when I was in first grade and just as I was getting them down pat they threw something else at me, but isn't that the way it goes? I didn't get my first library book until fifth grade. I learned how in Kindergarten when my older brother taught me to read Bugs Bunny comic books. I still like Bugs Bunny, probably because we have similar personalities. -Randy Quote
PatS.... Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 Tim Adams said: actually after the first reading I could go on to other books and had no need to keep mine...(oooh that was looooooow) I'll go stand against the blackboard with my nose in the circle of chalk...! Some of us just need a little reassurance sometimes. Add that to the fact it was my mother who saved all that crap and now I can't throw it out!!! (Kids today will make Ebonics look like the Queens English!) Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 moms keeps lots of things..some should have been tossed long long ago...I think I am the only one of the four kids that actually had a "baby" book....yep..at the house now..while in West Virginia this past weekend one of the neighbor girls gave my wife a picture of me from the second grade.... Quote
Don Coatney Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Posted June 3, 2010 Someone should send those with a desire to improve there Spelling, Punctuation, and Grammar, skills this link. Foolish me it is doubtful anyone here who has the need, wants to improve there skills. However here is the link. http://www.writingforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=14 Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 I think the Dick and Jane books would probably have today's high schooler sweating like Mike Tyson at a spelling bee. Quote
Don Coatney Posted June 3, 2010 Author Report Posted June 3, 2010 Joe Flanagan said: I think the Dick and Jane books would probably have today's high schooler sweating like Mike Tyson at a spelling bee. You crack me up Joe. Everytime I drove RT 7 from Dulles to DC I wondered what corner Mike was in when I drove through Tysons Corner, Virgina. Now I have to think of him in a spelling bee:D Quote
PatS.... Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 There are a couple that get me, like..."Mr Simpson "pleaded" not guilty at his court appearance today." I was taught that plead could be used 2 ways, plead and "pled". Pleaded isn't a word is it?? Maybe a lawyer would know this one??? Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 I think "pleaded" is a word. "Bleeded" is not. Quote
YukonJack Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 Tim Adams said: Dick Jane and Spot..went from red to green to the blue primers if my memory serves me correct Should there be a comma between Dick Jane and Spot? Quote
PatS.... Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 Joe Flanagan said: I think the Dick and Jane books would probably have today's high schooler sweating like Mike Tyson at a spelling bee. Quote
Plymouthy Adams Posted June 3, 2010 Report Posted June 3, 2010 YukonJack said: Should there be a comma between Dick Jane and Spot? no comma...but it can make you go into a coma...!!! Quote
JerseyHarold Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 PatS.... said: I was taught that plead could be used 2 ways, plead and "pled". Pleaded isn't a word is it?? By golly, I'm not the only person who wonders about whatever happened to 'pled'!!! I haven't heard it used in many years. Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 Whatever happened to "Egads?" I haven't heard that in a long time, either. Quote
Don Coatney Posted June 4, 2010 Author Report Posted June 4, 2010 Joe Flanagan said: Whatever happened to "Egads?" I haven't heard that in a long time, either. I was watching an old movie a couple weeks back and Egads was said frequently. It now has been replaced by "like" the most used word by modern day bimbos who think they sound cool although "UM" runs a close second. "Its like (long pause while the bimbo tries to form a sentence) um (another pause) UM, thats what I'm talkin about." Ever count the number of times the word like or um is said by anyone talking? Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted June 4, 2010 Report Posted June 4, 2010 In fact, I have. I also have a theory that younger people (teens and twenties) have begun eliminating syllables from their speech. It's either that or I'm going deaf. But I've asked other people if they've noticed this and they agree. It's like they're too lazy to say all the syllables. Half the time, I don't understand what they're saying. What movie were you watching where they said, "Egads?" King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table? "Gadzooks" is another term you don't hear much anymore. Quote
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