Go Away Spot

Read With Dick and Jane

by William S. Gray

Millions of Americans remember Dick and Jane (and Sally and Spot, too!). Now Dick and Jane and all their pals are back with revised editions of these classic readers for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy!

Go Away Spot
Dick said, "Down, Spot. I cannot play. Down, Spot, down. Go away, little Spot. Go away and play."

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

Reviews

[Sandy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've mentioned before that many Step-1 or Level-1 readers are published by Scholastic or Random House. Although, Penguin obviously publishes early readers also. They typically consist of 32 pages with one or two short sentences per page or opening. Go Away, Spot is a Read with Dick and Jane book originally published in 1951. And well, things have changed a good bit since then. This book is 32 pages, but each page is filled with multiple sentences--sometimes up to 7 sentences per page. While this isn't an abundance, my now 7-year-old gets quickly overwhelmed when he sees paragraphs or what is to him many words on one page. He intended to read this book in parts, like half now and half another day. But I kind of tricked him into reading the entire thing in one sitting--which he is completely capable of.

Go Away, Spot is a deceiving title. Only half of the book involves Spot at all. This book is full of repetitive words and phrases. The stories don't rhyme necessarily, but they do promote mastery. You can tell by the words used in the book as well as the illustrations that this was written many years ago. But I don't think newer is always better. If this is the level-1 readers of 1951, our 32 pages with 2 sentences a page seems a little piddly.

Go Away, Spot gets 4 Stars. I liked that many of the same words and phrases were used throughout the book to promote mastery. And I also liked that this book was a bit more of a challenge to my son who gets easily overwhelmed. It wasn't the words themselves that were challenging, but simply seeing so many words on one page was the challenge. Have you or your child read Go Away, Spot? What did you think? Let me know!

[Cam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beginner readers chapter book!!! Great for beginners.

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super cute book

[Amy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I remember learning to read with these in school.

[Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is about Dick and Jane's dog Spot. They are playing with Spot and go on different adventures.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read this with my son a couple times in the last week. I know these books are very simplistic, but he feels a great sense of accomplishment at being to read them on his own and so we keep getting them to build that up. Great first readers, even though at times my son has said, "that doesn't make sense" with some of the simplicity of the phrases if he doesn't pay attention to the pictures to know what the words are referring to.

[Janice · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Stories and pictures are mostly the same. But they are all mixed up. They took the first 3 preprimers, the junior primer Guess Who and stirred the stories up and reprinted them into 6 books. They really were nice the way they were. They also did not include the information about new words and which books come before or after. This all use to come at the end of the book. It was very useful to know which words were new words so you could make sure the children new the phonics.

[Cws]

JEAR1-Dic

[Jaime Taggart · Rating 5 out of 5]

My mom learned to read with Dick and Jane, I did, and now my son it. I love Dick and Jane stories!

[Jason]

a challenging read but i think i'll make it through.

[Melissa · Rating 2 out of 5]

first grade reading book

[Bree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Notes:
these are the best early readers available
repetitive vocabulary with family-based 'stories'
beautiful illustrations
(maybe not a 5 star book but in this category these books shine!)

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