In the article, "Making a case and a place for effective content area literacy instruction in the elementary grades," author Barbara Moss asserts that effective content area literacy in the elementary grades is essential to prepare students for meeting the demands of the 21st century's marketplace.
Moss's argument for elementary level content area literacy is three-fold: early exposure is key; informational texts motivate children; and information texts increase new knowledge domains. First, Moss says that early exposure to expository text lays the foundation for the expository texts to which students are largely exposed in the later grades. While early elementar
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