The program helps children increase confidence, promote self-efficacy, foster connections, learn valuable reading skills and carry new skills into the regular classroom. Interacting with horses, children engage in activities and games that help promote phonemic awareness, decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension, integrating social-emotional learning with academics, allowing students to see and experience reading with their entire mind, body and emotions. There is NO RIDING in this program. Students interact with horses from the ground, while using toys and props to identify obstacles and learn five critical reading skills, all while engaging in activities to make learning fun!