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The Key Words Reading Scheme is a series of 36 English language early readers children's books, published by the British publishing company, Ladybird Books. The series are also often referred to as Peter and Jane , the names of the main characters.
The Key Words Reading Scheme, taking his ideas, was first published in 1964, with Peter and Jane, and went on to sell over 80 million copies of the books in the series. [4] Peter and Jane were based on the real-life children (Jill Ashurst and Christopher Edwards) [5] of a neighbour of the books' illustrator Harry Wingfield.
William Gray and Zerna Sharp worked together to develop readers that incorporated the whole-word or look-say method of word recognition (also called sight reading). [6] The Dick and Jane primers introduced new readers to one new word on each page and only five new words in each individual story.
A self-portrait watercolour by Harry Wingfield in his early 30s. John Henry "Harry" Wingfield (4 December 1910 – 5 March 2002) was an English illustrator, best known for his drawings that illustrated the Ladybird Books Key Words Reading Scheme (also known as Peter and Jane) in the 1960s through to the 1980s, which sold over 80 million copies worldwide.
Wills & Hepworth began trading as Ladybird Books in 1971 as a direct result of the brand recognition that their imprint had achieved in Britain. In the 1960s and 1970s the company's Key Words Reading Scheme (launched in 1964) was heavily used by British primary schools, using a reduced vocabulary [3] to help children learn to read. [4]
Key Words Reading Scheme; L. Language Experience Approach; ... Sight word; Simple view of reading; Slow reading; Spalding Method; Speed reading; Starfall (website)
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Her final major research project was a five-year study aimed at improving the reading skills of older children. The resulting publication, Extended Beginning Reading, won the UK Reading Association's Book of the Year award. Vera Southgate wrote over fifty primers and reading books, often included in basal reading schemes.