Medindia

U.S. Department of Education-Funded Study Demonstrates, WordWorld, PBS KIDS(R) Television Series Works as Critical Early Literacy Tool

NEW YORK, Jan. 8 30 million Americans in the U.S. arefunctionally illiterate and their children are two times more likely thanaverage to grow up illiterate(1). The need for additional tools to ...
Los Angeles Times

A show that spells it all out

THE food-loving pink pig, brainy green frog and cute brown dog who populate the new PBS show “WordWorld” might look like normal kids’ television characters at a glance, but on close inspection you’ll ...
World Screen

WordWorld Picked Up by Discovery Kids Latin America

CANNES: The CGI multimedia property WordWorld is to begin airing on Discovery Kids in Latin America in July 2010. Each episode of WordWorld builds a story around a group of WordFriends who are made up ...
World Screen

TV-Loonland Adds WordWorld to Catalogue

MUNICH/LONDON: TV-Loonland has taken on the rights for the preschool series WordWorld across TV, home entertainment and new media for Western and Eastern Europe, including Russia, Africa and South ...
TechCrunch

Following Investment From Curious Pictures, PlaySquare Debuts “Touchable TV” iPad Apps For Kids

For producers of children’s television, the iPad is the device that finally lets them break through the fourth wall in order to directly engage with viewers who can now not only view and respond to ...
Medindia

U.S. Department of Education Funded Study Demonstrates, WordWorld, a PBS KIDS(R) Television Series Works as Critical Early Literacy Tool

NEW YORK, Dec. 11 A U.S. Department of Education fundedstudy found that WordWorld, an Emmy(R) winning PBS KIDS series, significantlystrengthens early literacy skills in preschoolers, providing the ...