Strengthen reading and writing skills, and make sense of math!
TV411
is an exciting video series for adult learners that uses
real-life topics to teach pre-GED level basic skills. 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 descriptions below.
 
Question
Man (Joey Kola) uses the thesaurus to find synonyms; slam poet
and educator Stephen Colman illustrates synonyms and antonyms;
Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a co-worker figure out the percentage
of her pay taken out in taxes; job seekers create a dossier to
help with their job hunt; and in
"Milestones," Nashville's auto mechanic Dallas Farmer reveals
his struggles and triumphs. Also Michael Franti of the Bay
Area band Spearhead describes his songwriting techniques.
 
The
Dallas Cowboys use football to figure out decimals and percentages;
Agent Know How investigates the library and gets a library card;
and New Mexico's famed poet Jimmy Santiago Baca tells how he
discovered the power of language while he was in prison and also
leads a group of El Paso adult learners in a seminar on the power
of writing. Question Man asks "Where do you put the apostrophe?"
 
Job
seekers prepare for filling out applications by creating a personal
data sheet; singer/songwriter Phoebe Snow shares thoughts on
her writing process and her music; and in "Lifelines,"
a parent learns how to document her child's illness and treatment
by creating a medical bible documenting his medical history.
 
Actress Kathy
Bates reflects on books that have been made into movies; in "Milestones,"
a woman from Pittsburgh tells her story of learning and reaching
her goal of being a travel agent; TV411's "Book Club" reads
Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate; and actor Malik
Yoba shares his secrets on how to keep a journal in the "Street
Beat" segment.
 
TV411's
"Book Club" reads Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings; Agent Know How gets the information he needs from
the library; and Laverne (Liz Torres) helps a new father of triplets
multiply his shopping list. "Lifelines" teaches how to prepare
for doctors' visits.
 
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 offers 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.
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