Early Childhood Services: Ready to Learn

What is Ready To Learn?

Ready To Learn is PBS’s nationwide effort to ensure all of America’s children are prepared for educational success. Ready To Learn service provides on air, online and print resources and local support to help parents and early childhood educators prepare children for school. Each weekday more than 140 local PBS Ready To Learn stations broadcast at least 6.5 hours of non-violent educational children’s television. PBS KIDS programs like “Arthur”, “Between the Lions”, “Clifford the Big Red Dog”, “Reading Rainbow”, and “Sesame Street” help children develop key school readiness skills in language, literacy, and cognition.

To extend the impact of PBS KIDS programs, PBS Ready To Learn is designed to build partnerships with local community organizations such as childcare centers, schools, libraries, businesses, civic groups, and government agencies to extend the value of children’s educational television. Ready To Learn stations conduct thousands of workshops annually for parents and early childhood professionals working with children birth to eight years old and distribute half a million books to children each year. Adults are encouraged to become active viewers and take learning “beyond the screen” by combining PBS KIDS programming with hands on activities and children’s books (View, Do, Read).

Funding is provided by the Ready To Learn Television Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Education through the Public Broadcasting Service.

WVIZ/PBS and all of the public broadcasting Ready To Learn stations in Ohio present professional development workshops for family homecare providers and others through a grant from the Child Care Bureau and the Ohio Department of Jobs and Family Services.

The Ohio Ready To Learn workshops are free of charge and all participants will receive two-hours of in-service credit for attendance, as well as books and other materials.

For more information about WVIZ/PBS Ready To Learn Services, please contact Courtney Muzzio, Ready To Learn Coordinator at 216-916-6342.

Thanks to Our Funders
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting; Ohio Department of Job and Family Services – Child Care Bureau; KCET Los Angeles