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.
For more information on Ready To Learn, which is made possible by generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the U.S. Department of Education, and local partnerships, please visit the PBS web site.
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
Airs M-F from 2:00-2:30 p.m.
12/19 Mummies Made in Egypt (Show 509)
The feature book
describes the techniques the reasons for the use mummification in ancient Egypt.
LeVar explores the Egyptian Mummies at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Dr. Raymond Evenhouse recreates the skull and face of a mummy, and Mimi Leveque tells about conservation and cleaning of mummified artifacts like a mummified cat, lamb, and crocodile.
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 Education Partners
