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The Learning Triangle
Watch, Do & Read

PBS 45 & 49 encourage you to use "The Learning Triangle" when you watch our children's shows with your preschoolers. After you WATCH a program, try to DO a related hands-on activity and then READ a related book.

 

Coping with September 11th
During the first two weeks of September, Reading Rainbow has scheduled episodes to help families, teachers and caregivers guide children through the unsettling emotions and feelings that will resurface as the country remembers last falls tragedy.

 

Watch

Reading Rainbow, My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States
Monday, Sept. 2 at 10 am

LeVar Burton celebrates the geographical beauty of America with wonderful poems that conjure up images of spectacular geographical regions in the United States.

Reading Rainbow, The Tin Forest
Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 10 am
Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 10 am

This story follows the inspired dreams of a sad and lonely old man, who gradually and creatively transforms his surroundings from gloomy and lonely to lush and full.

Reading Rainbow, Max
Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 10 am
Tuesday, Sept. 10 at 10 am

This is the story of the young son of an extended superhero family. Despite his familys coaching and encouragement, Max is a late bloomer when it comes to flying; however, his flying abilities flourish and his superhero status is achieved when he saves a falling baby bird.

Reading Rainbow, Enemy Pie
Thursday, Sept. 5 at 10 am
Monday, Sept. 9 at 10 am

A boy is delighted by his dads solution to getting rid of his enemy by making an enemy pie. The ingredients, however, include spending an entire day with his nemesis ... which turns his only enemy into a best friend.

Reading Rainbow, Our Big Home: An Earth Poem
Friday, Sept. 6 at 10 am
Friday, Sept. 13 at 10 am

This poem describes how all living creatures on Earth share the same water, air, soil, sky, sun and more.

Reading Rainbow, Badgers Parting Gifts
Thursday, Sept. 12 at 10 am

This is a remembrance show dedicated to keeping loved ones that have passed a part of our lives and our memories. Badgers friends are overwhelmed when they lose him, but in time they recall memories of him and feel better.

 

Do

Reading Rainbow has partnered with the Families & Work Institutes 9/11 As History web site. Youll find lesson plans for Pre-K to 2nd-grade students by visiting http://www.familiesandwork.org.

Read

The Tin Forest by Helen Ward

Max by Bob Graham

Enemy Pie by Derek Munson

Our Big Home: An Earth Poem by Linda Glaser

My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States Poems selected by Lee Bennett Hopkins

Badgers Parting Gifts by Susan Varley

 

The Learning Triangle is written by Bree Silski, PBS 45 & 49’s Ready To Learn Coordinator

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