Sorry, I should have been more clear. The books themselves didn’t include any phonics, but the lesson plans that went with them included some usage of phonics, apparently. That actually happens to mirror the way I was taught to read in the early to mid-70s with those books, which was mostly sight reading, but with some phonics.
Thank you. I did misunderstand. My kids read some of the Dick and Jane books when they were beginning readers but they had already learned the phonics “code” and were sounding them out.