These short playful video segments support early literacy skills like text comprehension, fluency, and print-word awareness.
Early Learning Resource Category: Raising Readers
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Sesame Workshop: Rhyme Time
Develop phonemic awareness skills on the Rhyme Time Express! Help Grover build his train by listening, and matching the pictures on the train cars that have the same ending sound(s).
Wonder Red’s Rhyme Racer
Listen and read along with rhyming words that explicitly teach children that rhymes end with the same sound; it’s their beginning sound and letter(s) that change.
Science Notebook
Encourage children to be like scientists and keep track of their own wonder, curiosity, and learning. Guide children to document the process of their discoveries with this bilingual printable Science Notebook.
Rhyme Time Magnets
Rhyme on a dime with a few household items.
Elinor Wonders Why
Guide little learners in asking questions, making observations, and basking in the wonderment of nature’s amazing answers. Ignite children’s curiosity using the science inquiry process.
Super Why
Explore interactive literacy videos and games featuring favorite fairy tale adventures from Super Why’s Storybrook Village. Join the Super Reader Team to help famous fictional characters solve problems and work together.
Storybook Builder
Create a story with Sesame Street characters.
Xavier Riddle Story Creator
Choose a book from writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, or Charles Dickens. Then, design a story just like theirs with help from Xavier Riddle and his friends.
Making Mini Books
Connect storytelling to drawing, writing, and reading. Children can draw and scribble pictures about anything they choose. Read this mini book aloud and share it with friends!