Help Encourage All Readers To Succeed Do you want to read to a HEARTS Karma Dog? Call your Baltimore County Library and tell them you want the Karma Dogs! Sign up for our winter reading program at the Towson and North Point Libraries starting January 1st! Reading sessions begin on January 12th. How can Karma Dogs help your child learn to read? Dogs can't read! Dogs also don't judge and criticize young readers when they make mistakes, which can often unintentionally cause them to become discouraged readers. When a child is more confident, they can learn more easily and are comfortable asking questions. Since dogs don't laugh or put pressure on a child the way their peers might, children are able to increase their vocabulary and become better readers in a safe and comfortable environment. Children become eager to read to the dogs and can't wait for the next visit. Similar programs are starting all over the country and are seeing successful results. H.E.A.R.T.S. sessions work best for children who can read or are learning to read, and are usually in grades 1-5. To get the most out of the program, Karma Dogs recommends that children attend a session weekly for the duration of the program. These visits can take place at the school, a local library, an after school program or just about anywhere. If you are interested in starting a H.E.A.R.T.S. Program at your school, please contact us at goodkarma@karmadogs.org. Check out pictures from HEARTS! |
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Here is what one Mom had to say about the program:
"I would like to strongly recommend the Karma Dogs program to anyone that has a child
who struggles with reading. My 10-year-old HATES to read. He will grudgingly read in
school or with his tutor, but only because he knows how much trouble he’ll be in if he
doesn’t do his schoolwork. My son refused to read outside of school and tutoring until
the Karma Dogs program arrived. He still does not read for pleasure, but eagerly awaits
his weekly appointment with Dirk. The book he received from Dirk after reading to him
four times is one of his most prized possessions.
All of the children I have seen participating in this program, leave with smiling faces,
enthusiastically telling their parents or caregivers about their experience reading to
Dirk, Tasha or Vito. It’s wonderful to experience and observe the difference this
program has made in so many young lives. Thank you!"
"I would like to strongly recommend the Karma Dogs program to anyone that has a child
who struggles with reading. My 10-year-old HATES to read. He will grudgingly read in
school or with his tutor, but only because he knows how much trouble he’ll be in if he
doesn’t do his schoolwork. My son refused to read outside of school and tutoring until
the Karma Dogs program arrived. He still does not read for pleasure, but eagerly awaits
his weekly appointment with Dirk. The book he received from Dirk after reading to him
four times is one of his most prized possessions.
All of the children I have seen participating in this program, leave with smiling faces,
enthusiastically telling their parents or caregivers about their experience reading to
Dirk, Tasha or Vito. It’s wonderful to experience and observe the difference this
program has made in so many young lives. Thank you!"
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