What Is Ready to Learn?
Rocky Mountain PBS's Ready To Learn project is part of the nationwide PBS KIDS Ready To Learn initiative. Ready To Learn is public television's response to a critical national education goal:
All children will enter school Ready To Learn.

How Does It Work?
The Ready to Learn service helps adults learn how to combine PBS's award-winning children's television programming with a variety of activities to help build children's learning skills.

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.

What Tips Do You Learn?

Ready To Learn activities reinforce the development of the following school-readiness skills identified by the National Educational Goals Panel:

• Social and Emotional skills
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving skills
• Language and Literacy skills
• Physical and Motor skills
• Cognitive skills
• Science and Discovery skills
• Life skills
• Appreciation and Understanding of Cultural and Social Diversity
• Music and Art Appreciation and Performance skills

What Is Included In a Workshop?
Participants in the Rocky Mountain PBS Ready To Learn workshops receive books, valuable tools and information that they can use with children.

Ready To Learn Reaches Millions.

• National broadcasts of PBS Ready To Learn children's programming reach 37 million children through public television stations.
• Approximately six million children have benefited from Ready To Learn educational outreach services.
• 620,000 parents and child care providers have been helped through 20,000 community-based Ready To Learn workshops.
• Two million new books have been distributed to disadvantaged children who otherwise would not have them. A minimum of 10 participants is required for on-site workshops.
  

Contact and Scheduling Information
For more information or to schedule a workshop, please e-mail Rocky Mountain PBS Ready to Learn or contact the Rocky Mountain PBS station closest to you:

KRMA-TV
1089 Bannock Street
Denver CO 80204
(303) 620-5686

KTSC-TV
2200 Bonforte Blvd.
Pueblo CO 81001
(719) 543-8800

KRMJ-TV
2520 Blichmann Avenue
Grand Junction CO 81505
(970) 245-1818

"A Place of Our Own" is designed for parents and anyone else who takes care of young children: grandparents, nannies, babysitters and home daycare providers. The series covers subjects such as tantrums, literacy, preventing obesity, as well as speech and language delays. These Peabody Award-winning programs combine an entertainment format. The daytime talk/demonstration show features solid educational information on how young children learn, and what adults need to know to help them be prepared for kindergarten and beyond.
Weekdays at 5 a.m. beginning May 5, 2008

 

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