"What Are All These Dogs Doing at School?" Using Therapy Dogs to Promote Children's Reading Practice.

By Childhood Education

Release Date: 2005-03-22
Genre: Education

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Describe a program in which struggling readers read aloud with a dog and its handler, and you will hear such questions: "You're joking, right?"

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