R.E.A.D. is a Pawsitive Program for Kids of All Ages
- Children who have had difficulty in learning to read are helped by reading stories to therapy dogs. Delta Society article about a program in Salt Lake City.
- http://www.deltasociety.org/TextOnly/VolunteerArticlesRead.htm

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]
- http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=172415

Four-Legged Listeners Help Improve Kids' Reading Skills
- A white dog named Merry Christmas and five other pet therapy dogs are taking part in "4 Paws for Reading" program at the Clarksville-Montgomery County (TN) Library. Dogs and owners are trained and screening to be designated as special literacy m
- http://www.theleafchronicle.com/news/stories/20031012/localnews/441354.html

A Dog's Life
- Levi, Rascal, and Magie and their owners are part of (HABIT) Human Animal Bond in Tennessee. They visit nursing homes in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. [Oak Ridger Online]
- http://www.oakridger.com/stories/100603/new_20031006022.shtml

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

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]
- http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=810&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=952976&om=1

DEAR Program of Fidos for Freedom:
- Encourages children to read one-on-one with therapy dog and a trained volunteer. Each child is matched with a Therapy Dog Team for a semester. In Laurel, Maryland.
- http://www.fidosforfreedom.org/FFF_dear.htm

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.
- http://home.earthlink.net/~kaylasclub/

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.
- http://www.midhudson.org/department/youth/DogTherapy.htm

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

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

Reading to Rover
- For children 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.
- http://www.visitingpetprogram.org/Rover.html

Who Let the Dogs In (the Library)?
- Hand-in-Paw brings the Sit, Stay, Read! program to the Avondale, Alabama, Public Library.
- http://www.handinpaw.org/sitstayread.htm

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.]
- http://www.sitstayread.org/About.aspx

Unusual Help for Reading Problems
- Television report on program in Salt Lake City in which children read to dogs that "listen." Comments from some of the kids.
- http://web.ksl.com/dump/news/cc/famnow/dogread.htm