Fourth+Grade+Literacy

The following pictures show the fourth grade set up of literacy at Mount Hope Elementary.

As I will point out, literacy is even more so student based, as well as a lot more found in written form as opposed to pictures and visuals.

Notice on the child's page, there is a lot of words and no pictures. In the upper elementary grades, literacy is heavy text and fewer pictures. An example of this can also be found on the floor in front of this student's desk. The book, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, is a chapter book that has a much more advanced reading level requirement than one would find in the lower elementary grades.

Much of the students' literacy interaction is written based. This can be seen on the photo above, as it shows what the students need to work on if they complete their assignment early. Each of these assignments are all written literacy and encourage the children to further that written literacy knowledge.

students are working individually at their desks, with the teachers only helping when the student raises their hand. Otherwise, they are independently enhancing their literacy knowledge by writing in their journals.