{"id":213504,"date":"2025-09-09T18:40:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213504\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T18:40:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:40:15","slug":"therapy-dogs-help-phoenix-students-learn-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/213504\/","title":{"rendered":"Therapy dogs help Phoenix students learn to read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 For many kids, learning to read can lead to judgmental scenarios among their peers at school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">That\u2019s why students at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Barry+Goldwater+High+School\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xab3ef22fe8a66840?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Barry+Goldwater+High+School\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0xab3ef22fe8a66840?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:2428&amp;ictx=111\">Barry Goldwater High School<\/a> got to take part in a judgment-free reading activity. They were able to practice by reading to therapy dogs!<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The students read to the dogs in 15-minute increments for eight weeks in order to improve reading and comprehension. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">All participating students are either in need of reading support or English Language Learners. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The district says the program has led to improved academic performance and test scores in previous years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 For many kids, learning to read can lead to judgmental scenarios among their peers at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":213505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,7182,116855,116853,1589,7183,116854,116852,105967,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-213504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-azfamily","12":"tag-english-language-learner","13":"tag-learn-to-read","14":"tag-phoenix","15":"tag-phoenix-news","16":"tag-read-180","17":"tag-reading-to-dogs","18":"tag-therapy-dogs","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115175805692732440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}