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KUAT Kids Book Club
Arizona Public Media™’s Ready to Learn service is designed to bring a rich, comprehensive reading experience to participating students, through the KUAT Kids Book Club, established in selected local schools.
Based on the PBS Between the Lions television series, the “club” features comprehensive teacher resource materials centered on monthly themes, corresponding videos, and free books delivered each month to every first grade student. Participating schools are targeted from low-income neighborhoods and draw a high percentage of limited-literacy students.
During the last school year approximately 2,600 books were delivered to first-grade students through this program. To date, more than 70,000 free books have been distributed to local children.
Parent WorkshopsArizona Public Media™ sponsors parent workshops which include multiple contacts with parents, particularly those participants from Family Literacy settings.
Initial contact focuses on an experiential workshop centered on the PBS television program Clifford and the Learning Triangle (view a program, identify the theme, and complete the learning experience with selected books).
Performance achievements for the 2006-2007 year included 60 multi-contact workshops, 85% of which were presented in Spanish or both Spanish and English and 8 single-contact workshops, including workshops offered to parents of children in the Kids Book Club. Participants included 755 parents and 121 educators, and represented approximately 2,236 children. Nearly 800 books were distributed through these workshops.
Arizona Public Media™ and Public broadcasting are committed to assisting teachers in the utilization of the wide variety of educational programming available for use in the classroom. See what Arizona Public Media™ has to offer you
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/
Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest (since 1995)On May 6th 2007, the winners of KUAT’s annual Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest came together with family members and other literary supporters at Bookman’s Entertainment Exchange on East Speedway.
The contest encouraged children in grades K-3 to write and illustrate an original story. Thirteen winners were chosen by volunteer judges from more than 350 entries, with the top winners at each grade level going on to the national contest.
Enter the 2008 Contest!
PBS KidsHealth Initiative
This initiative will build upon PBS KIDS’ content and resources that support a child’s overall well-being and healthy development, including:
- Rich curriculum-based content distributed free to all America’s children, including children’s specials that focus on health
- Characters who model positive behaviors and attitudes around nutrition, health and exercise, including Elmo, Arthur, Curious George and others
- Health and nutrition resources for parents through PBS Parents (pbsparents.org) and for teachers via PBS Teachers (pbs.org/teachers)
- Community-based activities with the nationwide support of PBS’s 355 member stations
- PBS KIDS® brand license agreements with companies who share our commitment to children’s health and well-being, such as the recent partnership with Produce for Kids® to promote eating more fruits and Sponsorship guidelines that prohibit food images or claims.
