PBS and Children’s Television as a Vehicle to teach reading

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Reading for a child is a magical library where characters pop out of books; vowel sing and words take on a life of their own. Each show on PBS has a curriculum, a list of things to learn that can help kids succeed in school and in life. PBS encourages creativity and critical thinking to young children. The purpose of this paper is to explain to you the readers of why PBS children television is a positive learning tool to teach children how to read. Educational PBS shows being broadcasted like, “Between the Lions, Arthur, and Curious George are one of the most essential tools a child could use for learning how to read.
Between the Lions is a series of comprehensive literacy curriculum that is geared to beginner readers age’s four to seven. The curriculum emphasizes the pleasure and value of reading as well as the skills needed for learning how to read. In each episode the cubs are using reading and language as they learn to grow through their experience and develop puppetry animation of live actor and music to develop a literary curriculum to teach children and entertain them at the same time. Between the Lions is a family of lions name Leona, Cleo, Lionel, and Theo who runs a library that is filled with magic and imagination of books. When Children are not able to visit the Zoo or see a lion in the wild, but they can now see it on television. The producers educationally have given us many shows and movies that allow viewers to see amazing footage of nature, animals, imagination. This helps the children and adults to learn from this type of media and gain a greater appreciation of the world and the animals and other people who inhabit it.
The series goal of this show is to dramatize the benefits of reading, show that learning to...

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