FREE Print Materials

Ready To Learn workshops provide handouts for parents and early childhood educators to extend learning with children:

The printable materials listed here are examples of the information given to parents and early childhood educators that attend local Ready To Learn workshops conducted by participating PBS stations.

• Using Television within a Child Care Program
• Guidelines for Rating Children's Television
• Using Television in the Home: TV Tips for Parents

Other Valuable Resources Include: 

PBS KIDS Online extends the mission of PBS KIDS TV programming by giving a diverse audience of children and their families the resources to improve school readiness skills, explore new subjects, express their thoughts, and play in a safe environment. PBS KIDS Online strives to be accessible to the largest possible audience by:

• offering content that is friendly to pre-readers and low-literacy users,
• addressing the needs of users with disabilities,
• developing activities including games, stories, music and printables that visitors can enjoy using a wide variety of computer
• systems and Internet connections.

PBS Parents helps parents and caregivers raise children who are ready to learn by offering educational activities and resources designed by experts in child development. The site includes PBS KIDS program information, an up-to-the minute PBS KIDS local TV schedule, tips for enjoying playtime together, thematic booklists, Q&A with guest experts, and articles for Spanish-speakers. The site also includes a robust search tool that helps parents to find activities that develop certain skills, such as math or reading.

PBS TeacherSource aggregates the PreK-12 educational services that PBS and its local stations provide and helps teachers incorporate video and the Web into the classroom. As part of the Ready To Learn service, from the start, the early childhood area of PBS TeacherSource, provides additional resources for PreK-2 educators, including a monthly thematic unit of online activities, articles about issues in early childhood education, recommended books and links, and printables in Spanish and English for teachers to give to parents to help them reinforce the educational messages their children receive in the classroom. In addition, educators can search topical lists of lesson plans tied to our award-winning PBS KIDS programming and correlated to national and state standards.