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WFSU brings the best of PBS's award-winning children's programming to your children every day. With over 60 hours of children's educational programs broadcast each week, we are committed to providing children with numerous opportunities for viewing quality television programs. PBS Children's Programs such as Clifford, Sesame Street, Dragon Tales, Cyberchase and others are all developed to instill an enthusiastic love of learning in young children. At WFSU, your children can learn with their favorite television characters.
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MARTHA SPEAKS

Begins September 1st, 2008
Weekdays, 7:30 am ET & 2:00 pm ET

Based on the best-selling children's book series by Susan Meddaugh, the MARTHA SPEAKS animated TV series follows the adventures of Martha, a loveable dog whose appetite for alphabet soup gives her the ability to speak.

Using her newfound abilities, Martha gets jobs, wears disguises, foils bad guys, wins contests and orders lots of steaks. A dog's breakfast of messes and hilarious entanglements ensue for Martha, her family and the unsuspecting people of her town who make up the comic heart of the series.

Being a talking dog, Martha lives in a vocabulary-rich environment. The educational goal of the series is to bolster the vocabulary of 4 to 7-year-olds within the context of great stories in engaging, comical ways. Around and in between the half-hour's two 11-minute stories are a variety of animated interstitials that reinforce the vocabulary.

Sit. Stay. Watch out world: here comes Martha! Martha Speaks is part of PBS KIDS Raising Readers, designed to use media to help young children, especially those from low-income families, build the skills they need to learn to read.