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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 helping struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.
 

Our Shows on PBS

Reading Rockets produces award-winning PBS television programs about reading and education. You can watch the shows when they are broadcast by your public television station.

Set to a hip-hop soundtrack, Reading Rocks! is a buoyant new PBS television special that uses wacky humor and stories of hope to encourage struggling readers to keep trying. The special also helps parents and teachers understand and encourage struggling readers at home and school. Television and film stars Nick Spano and Vivica A. Fox add sparkle to the 30-minute program.

Watch the opening from Reading Rocks!, our show for kids ages 7-12 years old.

Reading Rockets programs include the following:

How to see our shows
Our broadcast schedule lists upcoming dates and times for each show. All of our shows can be watched online for free and are available for purchase (in VHS and DVD formats) from our online store.

For the news media
To find press announcements and high-resolution images from the shows or to download our logos, please visit the Press Room.

Public Service Announcements
Reading Rockets has produced several 30-second public service announcements featuring Reba McEntire, Molly Ringwald, Vivica A. Fox, Morgan Freeman, and Al Roker. View the PSAs and find out how your organization can use these free PSAs for broadcast or to include on your website.

Downloading our video
For information about video downloading rights, please see the Creative Commons license page.

About us
Reading Rockets is based at public television station WETA in Washington, D.C., and is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. Information about Reading Rockets is available on the About Us page.

If you have any comments or suggestions about our shows, please contact us.

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