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Puppy tales: Shelter dogs make a captive audience for young readers

Reading in front of a group of people can be a frightening experience for just about anyone, but so can being alone and stuck in a kennel. To help ease each other’s fears, and as part of Nevada Reading Week, more than 70 first-graders from Sewell Elementary School in Henderson and Ronnow Elementary School in Las Vegas read to shelter dogs March 1 at The Animal Foundation.

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First-graders read to dogs for Nevada Reading Week

About 80 first-graders found some eager listeners on Tuesday during a visit to the Animal Foundation. The students from C.T. Sewell Elementary School and C.C. Ronnow Elementary School demonstrated their reading skills while dogs at the shelter listened.