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"Second-grade students who read aloud to dogs in an after-school program demonstrated improved attitudes about reading, according to researchers at Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction at Tufts University. Their research appears online in advance of print in the Early Childhood Education Journal. Reading skills are often associated with improved academic performance and positive attitudes about school in children. Researchers wanted to learn if animal-assisted intervention in the form of reading aloud to dogs in a classroom setting could contribute to improved skills and attitudes."

...I was most impressed by are the one that shows the progress of the battle between Napoleon and Russia -- Napoleon's march to Russia...

This collection of tips was transcribed from a seminar given in Seattle by Edward Tufte