Build reading skills, improve writing ability, and make sense
of math!
TV411 is an exciting new 20-part video series for adult learners
that uses real-life topics to teach pre-GED level basic skills.
Created with high production values, this indispensable learning
tool is packed with expert advice and proven tips to promote
active learning.
Content focuses on parenting, money matters, and health. Subjects
include reading comprehension, research how-to's, writing to
others, filling out forms, calculating percentages, using fractions,
test taking, and more.
For more information, see the episode by episode description
below.
Question Man shows viewers the right way to take a phone message;
Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a pair of shoppers get the best deal
when buying a TV; New York-based pop/rock band BETTY teaches
homonyms; a group of job seekers learn how to craft their resume;
and "Milestones" puts the focus on Pat Blackwell of Indiana
who explains how going to school later in life enabled her to
become a nurse and support her family.
Late Olympian Florence Griffith Joyner introduces champion ice
skaters Tai Babalonia and Randy Gardner who use their talent
to calculate an average; animated segment "Dictionary Cinema"
shows you how to look up a word; "Milestones" features New York
artist Esperanza Cortez who shares her battle with dyslexia.
Job seekers work on writing noteworthy cover letters; Laverne
(Liz Torres) helps a shopper deal with diabetes and food labels;
and "Dictionary Cinema" shows you how to look up a word that
you do not know how to spell.
Agent Know How uses the library's computer to look up a book;
a parent tells of the joy of reading to his kids and gives you
tips on how to do it well; and TV411's "Book Club" reads Angela's
Ashes and meets the book's Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Frank
McCourt.
A young couple from Seattle with credit card debt visits a credit
counselor to create a budget, learn how to clip coupons, and
manage their money; "America's Smartest Moves," hosted by America's
Funniest Videos star John Fugelsang looks at the fine print
on those "too good to be true" credit card offers; in a commercial
parody "Rip Off" looks critically at a television offer; and
"Book Club" puts the spotlight on Studs Terkel who reads from
his book Working.
