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Pinky Dinky Doo
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Pinky Dinky Doo
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Noggin |
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Educational
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| SHOW DESCRIPTION: |
Pinky Dinky Doo is a seven-year-old girl who uses her imagination to solve everyday problems. Through her adventures, Pinky helps promote reading success. Pinky and her brother Tyler model effective strategies to help kids make sense of stories.
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Representation |
Does the show use a balanced ratio of male and female characters? |
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Appearance |
How characters are portrayed in terms of their appearance. Does the show use color to identify gender and are broad ranges of features used to illustrate characters? |
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Communication/Interaction |
How characters are portrayed in terms of their communication styles and interactions with other characters. Do they display characteristics such as assertiveness, confidence, sensitivity, kindness, adventurousness, etc.? |
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Leadership & Independence |
How characters are portrayed as leaders or followers. Do they act independently, initiate conversations and actions, show respect for others, etc.? |
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Activities |
How characters are portrayed in terms of their activities and physicality. Are characters portrayed doing only stereotypical activities (girls cheerleading and boys playing sports, for example) or are there a broad range of activities for each? |
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Skills & Intelligence |
How characters are portrayed in terms of their intelligence and abilities. Do they show aptitude with science, technology or math as well as art, dance or music? |
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COMMENTS: Pinky is certainly the leader of this show and appears in every scene. However, the use of pink and purple for her colors and blue for her brother's reinforces stereotypical use of these colors. We'd like to have seen some bolder choices here.
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