 Program Summary:
Between the Lions is an award-winning PBS television series that airs weekdays on KNPB at noon. It is designed to foster the literacy skills of its viewers, while playfully demonstrating the joys of reading. Each show aims to give kids four to seven years old some of the experiences they need in order to become successful readers.
Meet the "Mane" Characters:
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Theo is proud, expansive, and regal in demeanor, if just a bit scruffy in appearance, and he has a deep, masterful voice perfect for storytelling or settling disputes between literary characters. Theo has a zestful-indeed, ravenous-love for books, both the "wholes" (stories, biographies, plays, periodicals, poems, ballads), and the "parts" (individual words, letters, phonemes, characters, illustrations, punctuation marks-even page numbers).
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Cleo In traditional lion families, the lioness does most of the hunting, and Cleo is no exception. Her huntress instincts make her both a voraciously eager director of acquisitions for the library and the ideal librarian, relentlessly tracking down, and pouncing upon, whatever story or reference work the library's patrons may request. Cleo's talents extend to the "parts" portion of our literacy agenda as well: few indeed are the words, letters, or phonemes wily enough to evade her determined efforts to find them. Cleo's instincts also make her a wondrous investigative reporter-a talent that reveals itself when she hosts "Between the Covers" and literally enters books so she can report on what's happening.
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Lionel has discovered the joys of independent reading-he'll devour any text he can get his paws on. He also loves being read aloud to, and serving as a mentor and "designated reader" for his younger sister, Leona. Though he's always trying to convince Leona that his "look-before-you-leap" approach to life is the way to go ("Trust me, I'm seven, I've lived"), she remains a leap-before-you-look kind of cub.
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Leona is frequently hunting and stalking and pouncing-on her brother and on unsuspecting samples of text that she loves to bring back and show off to her family. Leona is not at all afraid of the unknown; this four-year-old cub welcomes any chance to experiment or change things around "just to see what happens." Leona has also inherited her dad's talent for writing. Her literacy skills aren't really developed enough for her to get the words down without help, but she grabs every possible opportunity to dictate new stories-or revisions of familiar old ones-to her parents, to Click the Mouse, and-most of all-to her brother.
Available Workshops:
- Poetry:
Goals of this workshop include teaching young children about poetry and rhyming. Participants will create poetry and picture poetry through thinking of simple occasions, occurrences, places, and things. Participants will also learn how to use the "Learning Triangle."
Links:
For more, contact Brooke Dutton, at 775.784.4555 or
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