Reading Rainbow is a children's series designed to promote reading comprehension in elementary school age children. Host LeVar Burton introduces the theme of the episode and the book to be
LeVar Burton, star of "Reading Rainbow" and of "Star Trek" fame, plans to livestreamed his popular reading times to help ease the coronavirus blues. Titles featured on the long-running TV program Reading Rainbow, hosted by LeVar Burton. The program promoted children's literacy and featured one book per episode. There was also a regular segment where actual children gave short reviews of their favourite books. Reading Rainbow Season show reviews & Metacritic score: LeVar spends a day at the dairy seeing how cows are milked and understanding what care cows need. Alaina Reed Hall reads the story of The Milk Makers, detail In every episode, host LeVar Burton (Roots, Reading Rainbow, Star Trek) invites you to take a break from your daily life, and dive into a great story. LeVar’s narration blends with gorgeous soundscapes to bring stories by Neil Gaiman, Haruki Murakami, Octavia Butler, Ray Bradbury and more to life. Reading Rainbow is a half-hour children's series designed to promote reading comprehension in elementary school age children. Host LeVar Burton introduces each episode's theme and the title book to be profiled in an animated story using the illustrations from it and narrated by a celebrity such as Bill Cosby, Ruby Dee, Richard Gere, and the late great stars Ossie Davis, Julia Child, Raul Julia
Rainbow won a Peabody Award and 26 Emmys, and ended its run as the third longest-running children's program in PBS history (behind the aforementioned Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood).. Five years after the show ended, Reading Rainbow has made a comeback of a sort, as an internet-based outreach project. The project was started in 2012 with the goal of making Reading Rainbow
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