The core of PBS Ready To Learn is non-violent, commercial-free, educational children's television programming broadcast free of charge and KACV-TV devotes over 10 hours every weekday to children's programming. Also, through PBS Ready To Learn, the Station provides additional services to parents, childcare providers and other early childhood educators, including workshops/training, distribution of children's books, and distribution of PBS Families/Para la Familia, as well as other educational materials that support children's learning. During the 2002-03 service year, KACV educated over 500 adults, distributed over 4,000 books, and reached over 3,000 at-risk children.

PBS Ready To Learn services also include a wealth of free Web-based learning resources for parents, educators and children:

pbskids.org/shareastory is a national literacy campaign designed to inspire adults to help millions of children develop language and literacy skills through daily activities, including book reading, drawing, storytelling, rhyming and singing.

pbskids.org/Early Childhood Education is targeted to preK-grade 2 educators and offers a full array of classroom ideas, lesson plans and articles of interest.

pbsparents.org is designed to provide information for parents and other caregivers on a wide variety of relevant topics as well as tools to assist them in creating learning opportunities for their children.