Children who attended a reading program yesterday at the Needham Free Public Library watched in delight as their teacher bowed down, rolled on the floor, and used her nose to flip through a book about the Red Sox.
Those things don’t happen in your average classroom. But Lucy, a black lab who is trained specially to help children learn to read, is clearly not your average teacher.
Lucy and her owner, recently retired first-grade teacher Pat Howes, help kids develop their reading skills and instill a love of books through the programs they hold at schools, libraries and bookstores. Howes said the programs are effective because children feel at ease when they are reading to a calm, friendly dog who won’t judge them when they make mistakes.
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