Sit Stay Read
Improves literacy skills and fosters a love of animals by partnering reading assistance dogs with children. Includes training and testing for pet and handler. How it works in Chicago. [May not work for all browsers.]
http://www.sitstayread.org/About.aspx

Who Let the Dogs In (the Library)?
Hand-in-Paw brings the Sit, Stay, Read! program to the Avondale, Alabama, Public Library.
http://www.handinpaw.org/sitstayread.htm

Reading to Rover
For children who struggle with reading aloud in a group. Dogs offer a calm accepting presence for the children to practice. Pictures. In the New Orleans area.
http://www.visitingpetprogram.org/Rover.html

Professor Pups
Therapy dogs lend a paw to children learning to read. The dogs don't rush the kids or interrupt them. Princeton and central New Jersey.
http://lists.envirolink.org/pipermail/ar-news/Week-of-Mon-20030825/005666.html

Canine Companions May Help Kids Learn to Read
Salt Lake City program in which kids read to dogs. The children have shown dramatic improvement in skills, and other states are now following Utah's lead. National Geographic.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/10/1001_021001_READdogs.html

Dog Therapy Helping Kids Read
H.A.R.T. (Human-Animal Relational Therapies) brings therapy dogs with their handlers to the Mahopac (New York) Library where children learn to read better when they read to the dogs.
http://www.midhudson.org/department/youth/DogTherapy.htm

Welcome To Kayla's Club
A weekly after-school program for gifted, at risk, and special needs students at a middle school outside Houston, TX. Children gain confidence and interpersonal skills.
http://home.earthlink.net/~kaylasclub/

DEAR Program of Fidos for Freedom:
Encourages children to read one-on-one with therapy dog and a trained volunteer. Each child is matched with a Therapy Dog Team for a semester. In Laurel, Maryland.
http://www.fidosforfreedom.org/FFF_dear.htm

Reading Aide Does Her Job by Lying on the Carpet
Students read to Annabelle, a beagle, who listens politely. This Canine-Assisted Reading Education (CARE) program is run by Caring Canines, a volunteer organization that offers animal-assisted activities in the Baltimore-Washington area. [Laurel Leader]
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=810&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=952976&om=1

Reading to the Animals
This library program uses dogs as listeners. Kids gain skills reading out loud. One child even read in Chinese. [Pleasanton Weekly]
http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/morgue/2002/2002_11_29.paws29.html

A Day in the Life of a Therapy Dog
A corgi named Fezziwig spends days helping students with his owner, an elementary school counselor. [NewsRegister, McMinville, OR]
http://www.newsregister.com/news/story.cfm?story_no=172415