For ages 3-6.
Series Goals
- To create lifelong readers who are motivated to read for pleasure and information
- To teach abstract, high order reading skills such as making inferences through theme comprehension
- To stress to parents and caregivers the importance of reading to their children
- To help young children learn key reading skills and strategies for using these skills
- To surround children with literacy learning opportunities in all aspects of their lives
- To provide practice with reading skills through interactive stories and literacy-based games
In every episode, one of the friends encounters a problem with another Storybrook Village character (For instance, Jill from the Jack and Jill rhyme is not being nice). As in real life, the problems require preschool social skills to resolve.
Helping Kids Prepare for School
SUPER WHY aims to help young children learn key reading skills as identified by the National Reading Panel, including alphabet skills, word families, spelling, comprehension and vocabulary.