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Built around the Learning Triangle of View, Read and Do, WILL-TV's RTL service offers workshops to show parents, teachers and child care providers how to use educational television, children's books and hands-on activities to increase learning. Through partnerships with such community agencies as Baby TALK, Even Start and Head Start, RTL reaches at-risk families across central Illinois.

Learning Triangle
How to extend the educational value of TV

Partner Profile
Workshops can be eye-openers for child care providers

Fun Sheets
Books, activities and TV segments grouped by themes

Workshop Descriptions
Descriptions of WILL workshops on literacy, social skills, science, media literacy and more

The number of television commercials that children and young people view has risen from 20,000 per year in the 1970's to recent estimates of 40,000 per year.


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