TV Shows That Teach Reading & Literacy Skills - 1 views
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Make TV time productive for preschoolers and early readers by choosing programs that reinforce early literacy skills. Kids may not learn to read just by watching a TV show, but there are some great shows that are entertaining for kids, but also incorporate a curriculum designed to help kids understand, practice, and develop reading and other early literacy skills. Here are some of the best shows that focus on a reading or early literacy curriculum:
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Between the Lions features a family of lions - Mom, Dad, and their children, Lionel and Leona - who run a library that is filled with the magic of books. Each episode finds the cubs using reading and language as they learn and grow through their daily experiences. The series combines puppetry, animation, live action and music to develop a literacy curriculum geared to beginning readers aged four to seven. Characters from books come alive, letters sing and dance, and words play in the world between the lions. Also, every episode addresses the five key areas of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and text comprehension. (Airs on PBS, check local listings.)
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Super Why follows the adventures of four friends, the Super Readers, who use fairy tales to solve problems in their every day life. When a problem occurs, the Super Readers -- Alpha Pig with Alphabet Power, Wonder Red with Word Power, Princess Presto with Spelling Power, and Super Why with the Power to Read -- invite Super YOU to come into the pages of a magical storybook world and help them. Kids follow along as the Readers read and watch a story, talk with the characters, play word games to ensure the story is correct, and relate the story's lesson to the problem they are trying to solve. (PBS)
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The 3D animated series WordWorld incorporates letters into the characters and animation to help kids understand that letters make sounds and, when put together, spell words. The comedic plots center around the WordFriends -- Sheep, Frog, Duck, Pig, Ant, and Dog. The animals are drawn as letters that form the shape of their bodies, so kids can see the word "Dog," for example, as they watch Dog. In each episode of WordWorld, the friends tackle daily difficulties, which they solve by helping each other and using their word skills to "build a word." Viewing children watch as letters of a word come together and then morph into the object the word represents, helping kids understand the connection between letters, sounds and words. (PBS)
