An adorable video has been melting hearts online, capturing a dog's fondness for books. The clip, shared by ...

On a recent Tuesday evening at Jefferson Parish's East Bank Regional Library, a young girl with blonde braids slowly read aloud from a colorful children's book. A sinewy Rhodesian ridgeback named ...

Reading aloud can be intimidating for children, but a unique program in Central New York is helping kids gain confidence by reading to a non-judgmental audience: dogs. Cooper, one of the dogs with ...

Children who are nervous about reading aloud have a friendly audience at the Oro Valley Public Library. There, they can read to a trained and certified therapy dog who is guaranteed not to criticize.

Reading to dogs improves children's reading, study says. EAST NORWALK, Conn. Aug. 18, 2010— -- Man's best friend can do a lot more than fetch and roll over. Research now suggests that dogs can ...

Reading aloud to students during class time may sound like a simple, almost quaint, endeavor, as if from a bygone era. But literacy experts insist that it’s every bit as relevant now as ever, and they ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...