Dogs as listeners and reading teachers
Some days even I am amazed at how the truth seems to seep out in odd ways. If you missed it, a great article from Yahoo News came out about dogs actually helping kids to read. It seems that the dogs are good listeners and encourage kids to read because they are happy to listen to anything.
If you want more details here’s the link to the article.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051123/ap_on_re_us/teachers_pets;_
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I wonder if this means that we need to have some dogs as Listeners in the Haint sequel? hmmm.
December 1st, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Wow, that explains why my puppy Pepper has been kind of unhappy with me lately. I’ve been preoccupied with getting mailings out about my book and forget to talk to her while she finds a snug spot between my feet under the desk. She wants to be near me and I like that but I must remember to talk out loud. Just because she talks silently with her eyes, doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to hear my voice. (she does vocalise to good effect occassionally but is really good at getting her point across with her looks). Well, all for now. This is a great blog site! Beautiful job and I’ll be checking in regularly.