Preschoolers Get a “Super” Boost on Literacy and Celebrate Super YOU Day during NPT's groundbreaking week-long Super WHY! Reading Camps. After a five-day interactive learning adventure designed to teach valuable literacy concepts through playing with letters, sounds and words, children celebrate by showing off their new reading skills to parents and caregivers and Super Why himself! Every child receives a colorful certificate proclaiming that they are officially a Super Reader!

When:
Monday, June 14 to Friday, June 18, 2010.  Super Why! Character appears on Thursdays or Fridays depending on Location.

Where:
Camps take place at
Paragon Mills Elementary School - 260 Paragon Mills Rd, 37211
McNeilly Center for Children - 401 Meridian, 37206
Fannie Battle Day Home -911 Shelby Avenue, 37206
Nashville Child Day Care Centers

What else:
Super Why is the star of Super WHY! , the Emmy-nominated PBS literacy series for preschoolers from Out of the Blue Enterprises, airing on NPT weekdays at 8:00 and 11:00 a.m.

A total of 15 Super Why! Camps are being held in Nashville throughout the month of June and are part of Nashville Public Television’s PBS Raising Readers Campaign .

Super WHY! is the only preschool property created to help kids learn the fundamentals of reading through interactive storybook adventures. The program features a team of superhero characters with literacy-based powers, who jump into books to look for answers to everyday problems. Super WHY! is part of the Ready to Learn initiative, focused on helping children learn to read, and funded by a cooperative agreement of the U.S. Department of Education, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS. And Super WHY works! Two new research studies show a direct correlation between viewing the program and significant gains in early reading skills among preschoolers.