Literacy Elements In The UPK Classroom

There was many positive literacy elements found in the UPK room, although there were some flaws about the classroom. The classroom was very busy, the counters were full of clutter, causing this classroom look very unorganized. It was also very hard to see the literacy elements in the room from the observation booth. At one point it was possible to go in the classroom to get a closer look, while the children were in the gym. Unfortunately two children and a teacher stayed behind, once they left they came back less then two minutes later because of a child acting up. This meant collecting data was harder then I thought. Some of the literacy in the room could have been improved. A way this classroom could be improved would be to type out the
words instead of hand writing for a clearer more organized, crisp look, making it easier to read words. Mostly all the labels were hand written and looked sloppy. Another literacy element that could have been put up on the art display of the hungry caterpillar, could have been the authors name and title of the book. This introduces what an author is and how he or she relates to this book. I noticed in The Effie-Bennett Powe Center the author name was displayed in large letters, the same book was used in the UPK room. In the UPK room the water table was just labeled water, when I believe it should have had table include in this label giving it a clearer name of what it is. What I did notice is that the previous classroom, The Effie-Bennett Powe Center did have more literacy throughout the room along with being well put together compared to the UPK classroom. The UPK room should be worked on and improved to promote more literacy skills.