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Animals help teach reading. The student is encouraged to read out loud to a dog or other animal trained to "listen." The dog looks at the reader or at the book and doesn't interrupt if the reader stumbles over a difficult word. Most of these programs are run by groups that also do Animal Assisted Therapy.

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• Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read

  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1001_021001_READdogs.html
  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.

• Professor Pups

  http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030825/005666.html
  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.

• Reading to the Animals

  http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morgue/2002/2002_11_29.paws29.html
  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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