Hey, you guys! “The Electric Company” is back. I am a little too old to have learned my phonics from the original “Company” or my letters from “Sesame Street,” but I watched them both ...

Joan Ganz Cooney, the visionary behind both shows, created “The Electric Company” as a follow-up with a focus on phonics. If “Sesame Street’s” mission was to teach kids their ABCs ...

Other animated sketches, like “Monolith,” taught phonics in a headier way ... Watch Morgan Freeman on 'The Electric Company' Interestingly, the show also featured two popular existing ...

Fowles was in graduate school studying developmental psycholinguistics when she was hired to work on The Electric Company. She says segments in the show used "a lot of phonics, teaching the sounds ...

Produced by the Children's Television Workshop as a literacy-focused older kids' alternative to Sesame Street, Electric Company concentrated on teaching basic punctuation and phonics, which it ...

A new Electric Company, based on that 1970s PBS hit ... The new program’s core lessons focus on vocabulary, decoding (similar to phonics), comprehension of connected text (reading sentences and ...

Fowles was in graduate school studying developmental psycholinguistics when she was hired to work on The Electric Company. She says segments in the show used "a lot of phonics, teaching the sounds ...