Dog Day Afternoons
Come and practise your reading with the Library dogs
- 2.00 - 3.00pm
- 18, 20, 25, 27 January, 2005
- Centre for the Child, Central Library
- Bookings essential: ph 941 7923
Dog Day Afternoons is a program designed to improve the literacy skills of children, employing the concept of reading to a dog!
Dogs can be ideal reading companions: they listen attentively; they do not judge, laugh or criticize; they encourage relaxation and lower blood pressure; and reading to dogs is much less intimidating than asking kids to read to their peers.
In trial of this program overseas, literacy centres saw instant results: kids showed large improvements in reading and communication skills, higher self-esteem, confidence and social skills; also improvement in other subject areas, attendance and personal hygiene!
This is the first time that Christchurch City Libraries have trialled this program.
- READ: Reading Education Assistance Dogs
- A Nurse’s Pet Project by Gin Phillips published on July 19, 2004 at MedHunters.com
Images from Dog Day Afternoons January 2005
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