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PBS KIDS Super WHY! Right on Read-a-Thon summer reading program

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Motivate Chicago kids who love the PBS KIDS® preschool television show Super WHY! to spend time this summer reading by helping them participate in the Super WHY! Right On Read-A-Thon throughout June and July 2009.

Recent studies have shown that watching Super WHY! improves children's early literacy skills. Parents can help kids develop their ability and desire to read even further by using the reading materials available at the PBS KIDS Web site and certain local libraries for the Super WHY! Right On Read-A-Thon.

How to participate in the Super WHY! summer reading program

Parents can locate their local Chicago library and check to see if this branch is one of the 4,000 libraries across the nation participating in this summer reading program. If their local library is not one of the ones passing out free "Reading Packs," parents can visit the PBS KIDS Web site to download and print off a Super Readers Progress Chart with which kids can keep track of how many books they have read. At the end of the summer, parents can print off and award children a Super Duper Reading Certificate.

Parents can also print off a special Super WHY! Super Readers Bookmark and a Super Reading List with suggestions of fun books kids may enjoy reading. Some of the books are themed to match the characters on Super WHY! For example, Building a House by Byron Barton will appeal to kids who like Alpha Pig and how he uses his tools to build things, and there are several princess-related books that will appeal to children who love Princess Presto.

Super WHY! books

Kids may also enjoy reading some of the Super WHY! books that have been published during the past year. Each book retells one of the episodes from the show, with titles including The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Princess and the Pea, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. A new Super WHY! book, Little Red Riding Hood, will be published on June 11, 2009.

Super WHY! airs at 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. weekdays and 8:00 a.m. on Sundays on WTTW 11 Chicago.

 
Caren Watson, the Baltimore Children's Activities Examiner, has a great article about other summer reading programs, some of which Chicago children can sign up for.
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Renée Carver knows the way to Sesame Street and is a fan of children's programming that is entertaining, educational, and has some purpose beyond transforming kids into mindless consumers. Renée is also the Feature Writer for Children's TV at Suite101.com .

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