Reading Rockets: The Roots of Reading

Date: 2005
Format: DVD
Company/Organization: GPN Educational Media
Catalog: 884.001D

Running time: Approximately 26 minutes

Description

Hosted by Fred Rogers, The Roots of Reading looks at the earliest stages of literacy in such locations as a baby speech lab and a Head Start center. The program examines how parents, childcare providers, and kindergarten teachers can get children started on the road to literacy. Features children's book author and illustrator Rosemary Wells (Max and Ruby).

This program is the first episode of Launching Young Readers, WETA's award-winning series of innovative half-hour programs about how children learn to read, why so many struggle, and what we can do to help. [readingrockets.org]

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Credits

This program was produced by WETA, which is soley responsible for its content
© 2002 WETA, Washington DC