Blog #15- Classroom that supports reading/writing connections

For this blog, I have chosen to include an article taken from the Reading Rockets site as my artifact.
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/21825
This article has everything that a teacher needs to prepare her classroom to support reading and writing connections.  I am also referencing this material in order to answer the question of "describe what a classroom that supports reading/writing connections looks like.

Imagine a classroom with words every where; labels on shelves, toys, clocks, walls, and more. I used to work at KinderCare Learning Center and this is what my classroom looked liked. I taught a group of four year olds who could recognize many of the words without pictures, but include them if you have students who are not strong readers. We used journals to write stories about the lesson we learned and took paper and pencils to every center in our classroom. Once we had hard hats and block towers in the block area, so we added pencils, papers, and real life blue prints and just let our imaginations loose. Reading is important and a child can become a better reader the more they are exposed to print.

A second artifact I am including is two pictures of literacy rich classrooms. A word of caution however, too much print can be overwhelming for the students, be careful how print is displayed.