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Sharing their love of reading

Child Development students take literacy field trip to Gause Elementary

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Gause Elementary School students Jayda Peterson and Avery Price read with Hana Nekvapil, a student in the WHS child development class. The students were required to bring an age-appropriate book for the "literacy field trip," to read with second-graders.

Washougal High School Childhood Development students recently got up close and personal with understanding childhood literacy.

“As an assignment, my high school students were required to bring an age appropriate book for a literacy field trip to Gause Elementary,” Rachel Webb, WHS childhood development teacher, explained. “The idea is to encourage literacy across the district through our older students reading to our elementary students.

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