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Order the Reading Rockets Launching Young Readers PBS Series

Reading Rockets offers a wealth of reading strategies, lessons, and activities designed to help young children learn how to read and read better. Our reading resources assist parents, teachers, and other educators in working with struggling readers who require additional help in reading fundamentals and comprehension skills development.

For PBS Stations

 
 
Reading Resources for PBS Stations

Public television and literacy outreach

Television has tremendous potential to help young children learn. Given the power of television, young children need adults who can show them how to become wise television users and who can use television to contribute to school readiness.

Reading Rockets is pleased to present the following information for public television stations involved in activities that support children's learning.

Toolkit for outreach coordinators

This free toolkit, developed by Reading Rockets provides handouts and materials to make it easy for coordinators to offer literacy workshops. Included in the kit are video modules that show what works in teaching and encouraging kids to become readers.

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Toolkit video modules

 
Launching Young Readers: Our award-winning PBS television series

Parent Althea Slayden practices the reading strategies she's learned on her daughter, Nygeria

Teaching parenting skills video

In this segment from Toddling Toward Reading, part of our PBS series, Launching Young Readers, Althea Slayden practices the new reading strategies she's learned with her daughter, Nygeria.
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See also

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