What is Ready To Learn?

Created especially for families and child care providers, Ready To Learn is a PBS service which helps those who care for young children encourage a child's natural curiosity and love of learning.

Ready To Learn combines quality television with community outreach and innovative educational materials. This exciting blend of television services builds on PBS programs families know and trust - Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Reading Rainbow, among others - through:

• A daily broadcast of quality children's educational television,
• Breaks between the shows to deliver non-commercial, educational messages to help young people build the skills they need to become successful learners;
• Local educational outreach, such as workshops and newsletters;
• Partnerships with national and local community organizations, such as child care centers, schools, libraries, businesses, civic groups, and governmental agencies.

Together, these resources help families, teachers and caregivers use public television to help meet the national educational goal, that all children will begin school "Ready To Learn."

The Ready To Learn service also provides free community workshops and resources for America's children and their families, teachers and child care providers. These workshops are designed to train adults in teaching children the basic skills that will help them enter school Ready To Learn and succeed throughout life. Ready To Learn encourages adults to:

• Watch television with children
• Limit the amount of television children watch
• Be more selective in their choices of television programming for children
• Seek out books and activities to reinforce the educational information provided in PBS children's series and other television programs.

Ready To Learn Education Partners

Ella F. Anderson Trust
Bank of America Foundation
Mary Alice Arakalian Foundation
Norwin S. & Elizabeth N. Bean Foundation
The Byrne Foundation
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Lincoln Financial Group Foundation
Mascoma Savings Bank Foundation
N.H. Charitable Foundation--North Country Region
Oleonda Jameson Trust
Park Street Foundation

Family Literacy Community Partners