I found many interesting points in this article. Before reading this, I had never really considered technology to be a factor in why children should be more prepared in literacy than usual. Technology requires one to be able to sift through information at a quick pace and evaluate content for accuracy.
This article made some valid points, in that most elementary grades focus on fiction and rhyming. Informational text should be focused on more into the elementary level.
I believe that, after reading this article, if students are not exposed to expository text at an early age, it will grow more and more difficult to grasp important information. I remember feeling overwhelmed in elementary school when I first began being exposed to informational text, such as history and science. It was uninteresting for me, mainly because all I was doing was decoding words, not gaining meaning from the text.
Questions:
How early is too early to present informational text to children?
Is there a reason it is presented when it is? Will children be equally as overwhelmed by expository text, regardless of the grade it is presented?
