IRA Newsletter Project: Effective Literacy Website #5 "KidLit TV"

Mary Jane T. Nauta

ED638-01 Teaching with the Internet – Intercession 2017

Dr. Matilda Rivera

IRA Newsletter Project:  Effective Literacy Website #5 KidLit TV https://kidlit.tv

Welcome to KidLit TV!

Explore the world of children’s literature through KidLit TV featured in Learning Magazine and a winner of the Parents’ Choice Gold Award, the Norton Juster Award for Devotion to Literacy and one of the American Library Association’s Great Websites For Kids.  KLTV is available in over 600,000 schools worldwide via our website and video distribution partners.  These creators come from a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators and award winning filmmakers working together to create fun new innovative ways for kids to appreciate reading for the rest of their lives.  Explore the world by navigating the site by categories offered with this website.  The KLTV Shows, KidLit RADIO, Crafts & Activities, Book Trailers, Reading Rocks and FOR GROWN-UPS too!  The KidLit TV shows features Story Makers, Read Out Loud, Ready Set Draw, Young at Art and more.  Children will be entertained with all the activities provided for them, especially drawing or learning the basic art skills from shapes to colors by a talented illustrator.  Also, children will love to know the truth about what really happens in the library.  Live coverage of special literary events by clicking on Facebook Live and find out exclusive happenings!

Kids love adventures and by visiting KidLit TV, where they discover great stories and communicate with the people who actually created these children’s books.  KidLit TV is a place where every child would want to visit.  It is exciting and informative destination for authors, illustrators, teachers, publishers and anyone with a passion for children’s literature – Children’s Book Council. 

            KidLit TV is a big fan of kid’s websites that get kids motivated to learn, read and interact with their peers.  One of the favorite Gold Award Winning Apps is “Toca Life:  Town which is an app that features familiar Toca Boca characters in a fully interactive town.  Like Nintendo’s famous game Animal Crossing where there are buildings, characters and hundreds of objects to move around and manipulate.  With this app, children can solve a mystery, go grocery shopping, create their own stories and cook a meal.  This site encourages kids to imagine, play and tell stories.  It offers children who are interested in engineering.  It teaches kids how machines work with levers, screws, wheels, axles, planes, wedges and more.  But there’s more! 

            Get ready for “No Time for Flash Cards” where thousands of great ideas for early childhood education activities for kids, kids crafts, books, letters, numbers for infant, toddlers, preschool, kindergarten to fifth grade and teachers.  This is a place where children will have fun making crafts.  What a fantastic and creative way to reinforce learning, develop and refine fine motor skills and connect with their peers.  They can create crafts for holidays, seasons and crafts out of recycled materials.  Children learning how to save the earth by using recycled materials to create crafts!  What a fantastic way to save our Earth!

            KidLit TV offers a variety of diverse books about Christmas, Multicultural books and Native American Children’s books for kids.  That is not all!  Everyone can follow KidLit TV on Pinterest and Instagram, blog and Twitter.  Just by submitting your email address and name, KidLit TV will send biweekly newsletters that features “best of the web” articles and videos about children’s literature delivered to your mailbox.  And that’s not all, by sending an email address, you will get a peek at exclusive behind-the-scenes videos each month!  Get the backstage pass to KidLit TV by sending your email and name ASAP!  Don’t worry KidLit TV respects your privacy and will never share your email or any information to anyone.  Find out what other people are saying about this great website on KidLit TV blog, instagram or tweeter.  As you explore this awesome website communicate with others and Tweet at Twitter › @kidlittv_nyc!