| 2. | Sit Stay Read | | | Improves literacy skills and fosters a love of animals by partnering reading assistance dogs with children. Includes training and testing for pet and handler. How it works in Chicago. [May not work for all browsers.]
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| 4. | See Spot Read | | | Therapy dogs provide attentive ears to children who often do not have the confidence to read in front of classmates. Philadelphia Inquirer.
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| 5. | Reading to Rover | | | For childen who struggle with reading aloud in a group. Dogs offer a calm accepting presence for the children to practice. Pictures. In the New Orleans area.
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| 6. | Professor Pups | | | Therapy dogs lend a paw to children learning to read. The dogs don't rush the kids or interrupt them. Princeton and central New Jersey.
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| 7. | Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read | | | Salt Lake City program in which kids read to dogs. The children have shown dramatic improvement in skills, and other states are now following Utah's lead. National Geographic.
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| 8. | Dog Therapy Helping Kids Read | | | H.A.R.T. (Human-Animal Relational Therapies) brings therapy dogs with their handlers to the Mahopac (New York) Library where children learn to read better when they read to the dogs.
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| 9. | Welcome To Kayla's Club | | | A weekly after-school program for gifted, at risk, and special needs students at a middle school outside Houston, TX. Children gain confidence and interpersonal skills.
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| 10. | Reading Aide Does Her Job by Lying on the Carpet | | | Students read to Annabelle, a beagle, who listens politely. This Canine-Assisted Reading Education (CARE) program is run by Caring Canines, a volunteer organization that offers animal-assisted activities in the Baltimore-Washington area. [Laurel Leader]
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| 11. | Reading to the Animals | | | This library program uses dogs as listeners. Kids gain skills reading out loud. One child even read in Chinese. [Pleasanton Weekly]
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| 12. | Second-Graders Welcome Therapy Dog to Class | | | Tucker, a golden retriever, visits the Chapel Glenn Elementary School every day. He greets children and gives special attention when needed. Hendricks County, Indiana. [The Flyer Group]
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| 14. | Dog Helps Build Interest in Reading | | | While many dogs have been trained to bring cheer to nursing homes and hospitals, 94-pound Zoe has been trained to sit and listen to children read. Students are more enthusiiastic about reading. Dogs don't make fun of you when you make a mistake. (The Herald-Dispatch, Huntington, WV)
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| 15. | A Day in the Life of a Therapy Dog | | | A corgi named Fezziwig spends days helping students with his owner, an elementary school counselor. [NewsRegister, McMinville, OR]
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