Editing Zerna Sharp (section)

{{short description|American writer}}

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| birth_name=Zerna Addis Sharp 
| birth_date={{Birth date|1889|08|12}} 
| birth_place=[[Hillisburg]], [[Clinton County, Indiana]], United States
| death_date={{Death date and age|1981|06|17|1889|08|12}} 
| death_place=[[Frankfort, Indiana]], United States
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| occupation=Editor and educator 
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| employer=[[Scott Foresman]] 
| known_for=Creator of the [[Dick and Jane]] series of [[Basal reader|beginning readers]]
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| parents=Charles and Lottie (Smith) Sharp 
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'''Zerna Addas Sharp''' (August 12, 1889 – June 17, 1981) was an American educator and book editor who is best known as the creator of the [[Dick and Jane]] series of [[Basal reader|beginning readers]] for elementary school-aged children. Published by [[Scott Foresman|Scott, Foresman and Company]] of [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]], the readers, which described the activities of her fictional siblings, "Dick," "Jane," "Sally," and other characters, were widely used in schools in the United States and many other English-speaking countries for nearly forty years. The series, which included such titles as ''We Look and See'', ''We Come and Go'', ''We Work and Play'', and ''Fun with Dick and Jane'', among others, was marketed until 1973 and used the [[sight word|look-say]] method of teaching reading.