Initiative Description:
Through the Ready To Learn Initiative, funded by the U.S. Department of Education, CPB and PBS are partners in developing high-quality educational media and resources to advance critical early learning skills for children ages 2-8 to help them succeed in school, work, and life. This collection represents the library of teaching resources created under five Ready To Learn grant cycles.
Video & Series Activity Resources:
- Program created through Ready To Learn air on WXXI Kids 24/7 Channel on TV 21.4/Cable 1277 (or 1278)
- On-demand & Streaming: WXXI-PBSKIDS.org Live TV or PBS KIDS free Video App. (Download)
- Activities by Subject & TV Series
More About Ready To Learn
Ready To Learn (PBS LearningMedia Collection)
Ready to Learn Research Findings (CPB)
Media Resources:
Work It Out Wombats! An animated series for children ages 3-6 from GBH Kids and Pipeline Studios features marsupial siblings who demonstrate a way of thinking that uses practices, processes, and ideas at the core of computer science.
Lyla in the Loop: This multiplatform animated series for children ages 4-8 from Mighty Picnic and Pipeline Studios features a dynamic 7-year-old girl who teams up with others to use creative and strategic problem-solving and critical thinking skills to address a range of everyday problems.
Molly of Denali: The Big Gathering This short-form video series and interactive game features Molly and her friends preparing for a convention, inspired by the real-life Alaska Federation of Natives convention. Preparations, such as repairing a drum or figuring out how far each friend will have to travel involve using and creating functional texts.
What Can You Become: This series of shorts focuses on career readiness skills for kids while demonstrating how their interests and hobbies can lead to future job options and opportunities.
Tiny Time Travel: This series of live-action shorts follows and 11-year-old inventor and his best friend as they use their time machine to go back in time a tiny bit to solve misunderstandings and other problems in their neighborhood using social language skills.
Jamming on the Job: This multigenerational podcast from PBS North Carolina features the music duo known as 123 Andrés touring the country, meeting people with different jobs and composing original songs about those careers with the help of their magic BoomBox, voiced by Pierce Freelon.
The Plate Show: This comedy podcast from WNET for kids ages 6-9 and their families features Spoonie, a talking spoon, and Tongs, her sidekick, exploring cultures and foods around the world. They use social competencies in new environments, an important skill for the world of work.