Content Area Literacy in Elementary Classrooms Respons

While reading this article, I became more aware of using expository texts while teaching as well as  helping the students in improving literacy skills and being able to read. The main points in this article that I believe are important would be the two subheadings: Making the case for content area literacy and help students become strategic readers and writers of informational texts. I believe this because under the first subheading, there are numbered headings that break down the information about informational text with students at school and how early exposure to it can change or make things worse/better in the long run. It also talks about motivating children, because when children read something they want to know about from real world things, it motivates them to know more about. They also talk about how it increases new knowledge domains which means it will develop their vocabulary and comprehension and reading fluency. The other subheading talks about different ways of reading informational texts and working with students on them how it can improve their reading with informational texts and their writing skills as well. This was two headings were really helpful to me and important because I think as a future teacher, I need to know about the ways that I can help my students and get them involved with informational texts while helping them with improving literacy in other content areas. I know for some students it is hard to be "motivated" or wanting to read informational texts, but with this article, learning the different ways to help the students with informational texts is really helpful. I guess the question that I might still have would be are there different learning strategies or ways for a student with learning disabilities with informational texts. The barriers that I might have as a future teacher would probably be the ways for my students to really interact and want to read the informational texts. I know it's a learning process with whatever content area it is, so with different ways of learning and integrating literacy in the classroom I think it will make it better.