Encouraging Students To Read With Stuffed Animals, Yoga... And Therapy Dogs

WKYC (Cleveland) Via MSN
February 12, 2020

A Cleveland elementary school is integrating books, stuffed animals and therapy dogs to encourage young students to get into the habit of daily and 'confident' reading. From KYC:

“We call it ‘R&R yoga’ -- reading, rabbit yoga. It’s a stress-free environment. They build fluency skills, they’re able to learn some coping skills for stresses in school and outside of school.”

And that’s where the final program comes in. Not only de-stressing with the therapy dogs, but sitting down and reading to them.