A growing number of libraries and some schools are inviting volunteers to bring their dogs in to help children learn, hoping the pets will calm children who are struggling, excite those who are bored and help kids equate reading with fun.
Pets, books, and helping kids. Sounds like a great idea, now hopefully none of the dogs will attack a child and kill this idea.
This is awesome. I wish I could do that when I was younger
Just wanted to say, great post. I used to work at a library, and we had a program in place that brought those really giant but calm dogs, labradors? -- I'm a cat person, sorry -- in, and the kids loved to read to them, a) because they were cool, and b) because they were trained to be endlessly patient. The thinking was that if you read to a parent, there's only so much they can take before they correct you on a word, or change a pronunciation, or hurry you up a bit. After this happens once it's harder to read out loud because you're always critiquing yourself as you go.