Dogs make excellent reading Coaches

2. How Can Dogs Teach People To Read ?

3. Embedded
Canine Cues In
Computer Based
Reading
Programs

4. How Lassie Rescues Readers Works
the computer reading
program presents a lesson and
an assessment. During the
completion of the lesson
activities, a sound (canine cue
embedded in the software
goes off) the dog responds

5. What conditions are present when readers using canines
improved their scores?
One of the most
important features of
emerging technology is
the capability for
interactivity and
opportunity for feedback
echo Lane and Shaw in
that students’ success
can be attributed to the
canine’s interaction
motivating the students

6. What Canine Reading Assisting skills are transferable to an online
reading environment?
Retrieve
Objects
Answer the
Door
Perform on
Cue
Supersonic
Hearing
Connect
Emotionally

7. What are the key elements in online reading programs has the
most success rate?

8. What We Know From Lassie Rescues Reader Literary
Review
Illiteracy
Rates in
USA
Reading
Assistance
Dogs
Computer
Based
Reading
Program

9. Problem: Illiteracy costs American taxpayers
an estimated $20 billion each year while 45
million are functionally illiterate and read
below a 5th grade level
STAGGERING ILLITERACY STATISTICS. (n.d.). Retrieved from Literacy Project
Foundation: http://literacyprojectfoundation.org/community/statistics/
Research Topic:
Can Dogs Teach
People To Read
Using Computer
Base Programs ?

10. Positive results using Reading education
assistance dogs (R.E.A.D.) canines have aided
struggling readers make positive gains in the
reading levels
Pillow-Price, K., Fonts, N., & Stinson, L. (2014, 2014). Sit, Stay, read: Improving
Literacy Skills Using Dogs. Dimensions of Early Childhood, 42(1).
Research Question #1
What conditions are
present when
readers using canines
improved their
scores?

11. .
Fairman, S., Huebner, Ruth. (2000). Service Dogs: A Compensatory Resource to
Improve Function. Occupational Therapy in Health Care, 13(2).
Canines are trained to work in law enforcement,
entertainment, agricultural roles. Research by occupational
therapies have matched canine’s skills with human
functions such as answering the door and making phone
calls
Research Question #2
What Canine Reading
Assisting skills are
transferable to
Computer Instruction
reading
environment?

12. It has been proven that children who experience significant
reading difficulties need phonological awareness and phonics
skills taught to them in a systematic way. Using this approach
in computer based instruction helps at risk children catch up
with children from literature enriched homes
Martindale, T., Pearson. C., Curda, L.K., & Pilcher, J. (2005). Effects of an Online Instructional
Application on Reading and mathematics Standardized Test Scores. Journal of Research on
Technology in Education (International Society for Technology in Education), 37 (4)(4), 349-360.
Research Question#3
What are the key
elements in online
reading programs has
the most success
rate?

13. What We Conclude: