KQED Ready To Learn provides viewing techniques, suggestions for related activities to reinforce a program's goals and objectives, and recommended children's books to enhance early literacy skills.
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KQED Ready To Learn gives child care providers a variety of creative ideas for engaging youngsters in PBS children's shows by encouraging them to:
Talk about what they see on the show and ask questions
Predict what might happen next
Talk to the characters; clap, dance, sing along and count out loud with their favorites
Recall their own experiences and relate them to what they see on the shows
Repeat new words they hear and see
Read
Research has shown that reading aloud to children is the single most important thing adults can do to ensure youngsters' future learning success. Take this a step further by making connections between what you view and what you read. Enliven story time by:
Asking children questions about the story
Encouraging them to explore how characters might feel in certain situations
Having kids predict what a character will do next or guess how the story will end
Using different voices for different characters
Do
Take the educational concepts introduced on programs such as Sesame Street, Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, Reading Rainbow and Barney & Friends and turn them into concrete learning experiences for preschoolers. The goal of the Do component is to reinforce particular learning concepts on the show throughout a given day, week or month. Make connections between what you view and what you do. For example:
After watching a Sesame Street segment about the letter U, gather children together to make an alphabet mural or a collage of U words in a U shape.
After watching a Barney & Friends segment in which cast members cooperate to complete a task, engage youngsters in a simple cooking activity where they will learn a tasty lesson about cooperation and feel proud of their teamwork.
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