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.
Salsa musician and songwriter Ruben Blades talks about his
writing process and shares some of his music, "Milestones"
goes to El Paso, where a mother enters the Even Start program
and learns that she can bring her family closer together by
improving her reading and writing skills; and Question Man
(Joey Kola) learns some tips for taking tests.
Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a young man write a card to his
girlfriend; parents go through the process of choosing a school
for their child; and bluegrass singer and songwriter Hazel
Dickens shares her music and her writing tips.
Members of the WNBA's Detroit Shock use basketball to figure
out fractions and percentages; in "Lifelines," new immigrants
get advice on completing a citizenship application; Laverne
(Liz Torres) helps a customer fill out a store's credit card
application; and "Milestones" features Resonja Willoughby
from Oakland, CA, who shows viewers how writing a letter can
generate change in your community.
On Lifelines, a son writes an emotional letter to his estranged
father; Dictionary Cinema explains how foreign words are listed
in the dictionary; Milestones profiles a San Francisco/Bay
Area adult learner, Enrique Ramirez, who shares his continuing
education with his employer; Street Beat gives tips on highlighting
text; and on Sports Smarts, NBA Atlanta Hawks players LaPhonso
Ellis and Alan Henderson demonstrate how to figure out time
and distance on a map when planning a trip. Plus, a pop quiz
about word origins, and Buzzword explains the word "reconcile."
Question Man (Joey Kola) uses the library to find books to
help raise his teenage son; Laverne (Liz Torres) explains
how to use a glossary when reading a health insurance plan,
Street Beat gives a tip on figuring out a tip in a restaurant;
on Lifelines, a mother and daughter create a schedule to make
sure there's time for homework, chores and activities; on
Write Now with Jimmy Santiago Baca, the award-winning poet
and TV411 contributor shows a group of adults how to keep
a daily journal. Plus, a pop quiz about appliances, and energy
consumption, and Buzzword explains the word "stereotype."
