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

Date:1/8/2009

te consortium consisting of WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago, the Michael Cohen Group LLC, the Learning Box and WordWorld. To learn more about the Ready To Learn Partnership and WordWorld visit http://www.rtlp.org and pbskids.org/wordworld.

About WordWorld, LLC

WordWorld, LLC, created by Don Moody, is a multimedia platform that engages kids through television (PBS Kids), via interactive resources, and with learning products available at Target. Through a first-of-its-kind, patent-pending learning tool, all "WordWorld" products embed words into images to enhance word recognition. WordWorld, LLC is part of the Ready To Learn Partnership (RTLP), a public-private consortium awarded a five-year multimillion dollar grant by the US Department of Education. Members of the consortium include Chicago PBS member station WTTW and the Michael Cohen Group, an international research firm responsible for formative and summative testing of the show. For more information please visit the company's website at http://www.WordWorld.com/presskit.

(1) According to the National Assessment of Education Progress (www.famlit.org/site/c.gtJWJdMQIsE/b.1351223/k.6392/Family_Literacy__You.htm).

    (2) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2000).
        Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: an
        evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on
        reading and its implications for reading instruction. Retrieved
        November 13, 2008, from
       http://www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/nrp/smallbook.cfm

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