Story Dogs Reading Program Helps Boost Literacy Skills

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-26/story-dogs-reading-program-helps-boost-literacy-skills/102049562

 

Lovely story.  The children read to the dogs and it helps the children enjoy reading by making it fun.

 

 

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What a wonderful program

 

[Adrienne]

I thought this a great program too. I enquired about joining up ... seemed like such a rigmarole though. One must attend and pass a behaviour/temperament test (of course, fair enough) and in addition your dog must be desexed, and in addition your dog must be "groomed to perfection". Mmm. And in addition you find your own schools to visit.

 

I would genuinely have liked to be involved in this. When I was in primary school the mothers used to come and listen to kids read the readers individually. One mother used to bring the family dog (a complete mutt) and he used to sit alongside and listen. Lovely.

 

Good program, but my dog not desexed and no sorry I do not bathe my dogs, they are clean and healthy and do not smell - their coats work properly!