Kids playlist · Ages 4–6

Ready for School

Four titles that build the specific skills kindergarten teachers actually notice: vocabulary, listening comprehension, self-regulation, and letter recognition. A preschool curriculum in four shows.

Sequenced viewing · scored on the same published rubric

1. 

   Sesame Street

   Masterclass live-action, educational, children

   Decades of research-backed educational design teaching literacy, numeracy, and social skills through puppetry, music, and storytelling.

   188/200

   + Watched
2. 

   Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

   Masterclass animation, educational, children

   PBS/Fred Rogers Productions series built explicitly on the Fred Rogers social-emotional learning curriculum. The musical "strategy songs" ("When you feel so mad that you want to roar...") are not catchy hooks, they are clinically-informed c…

   168/200

   + Watched
3. !

   [Missing from DB: Word Girl]

4. 

   Blue's Clues

   Stimulating live-action, educational, children

   Nickelodeon series whose three-clue deductive-reasoning structure was engineered by Daniel Anderson's child-cognition research at Penn, the show is rare children's-television work whose pedagogical scaffolding was empirically tested before…

   148/200

   + Watched