Reading Response: Week of October 18, 2010
Many of you last week were able to give some vivid descriptive sentences from what you were reading at home which helped you to visualize. Let’s continue our discussion again this week, but with this challenge…. If you used a fictional book last week, try using a nonfictional text this week. Likewise, if you visualized from a nonfictional text last week, try your hand now at using a fictional text. Have fun! Be sure to include your book’s title, what you visualized, and the text’s descriptive phrases in your blog.
I love learning about the human body and this week I was reading a cool 3-D book called The Human Body by Jonathan Miller. In it, the author explains that “the eye muscles swivel the eyes up and down and left and right.” I immediately thought of how my swivel chair works and imagined by eyes swiveling around to see things around me. Then the author says, “light enters the eye and is focused by the lens to form an upside-down image on the darkened back wall.” That made me “see” the back of my eye like a movie theater with everyone standing on their heads!
ReplyDeleteI like reading and learning about wild animals. Maxed Out is one of the books I have read about wild aniamls. In this book it said, "saber tooth tigers attacked and ate animals much larger than itself." That is easy to visualize for me.
ReplyDeleteI have read a book called F-15 Eagles.It is about F-15 jets.There is a part in the book that tells you about them protecting a navy base. I can visualize the planes flying.Because
ReplyDeleteI see navy planes flying over the navy base by
our house almost every day.
John Horton
A book I have read that is non fiction called Amazing Animals by Mario Gomboli.
ReplyDeleteThis book tells about the fastest, heaviest, smallest, largest, fiercest, and funniest animals. One of the heaviest is the humpback whale. Its as big as a railroad engine! I can visualize this because I have seen a railroad engine before and they are HUGE!
I am reading a book called Camping Catastrophe! by Abby Klein. In this book, Freddy, the main character, snuck into his sister's room in the middle of the night very quietly. It made me think of sneaking into my sister's room and I could visualize it in my head.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book on EARTHQUAKES by Helen J.Challand. One part of the book mentioned mountains can be split in half. Hills and bluffs tumble down. Huge ice blocks slide down the sides of mountains. The cement on the highways rises up into large hills. Cars fall into big holes in the ground. When I'm reading these words, it reminded me of the movie 2012.
ReplyDeleteI read Snakes! Init there are mongoose that can eat venonous snakes without getting a stomach ache. I can see in my mind the mongoose chasing the snake and eatting it.
ReplyDeleteI love horses and I love to read about them.I read a book about them and it said horses only see green or yellow.I could just visualize.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book about Space by John Farndon. I love all books about space. In the part about Saturn it says that Saturn has winds that are ten times stronger than a hurricane on Earth. That helps me visualize the winds because I have seen hurricanes in Virginia Beach. It also says that Saturn's density is so low that it would float on water. That helps me make a connection because I can picture things floating on water. That means Saturn is really light like a balloon. It is light because it is made of helium. I can visualize Saturn floating like a balloon.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book called Amazing Cats by Alezandra Parsons. It is about some cats that live in history. It talks about when the people worshiped cats long, long ago. It also tells me about the 3 different kinds of cats, about their body, fur and special abillties. The cats in this book remind me of my 3 cats and the problems we had when they got stuck up in a tree!
ReplyDeleteI read Sharks! from science readers.I visualized a shark swimming in the oceans.I felt the shark's skin was like rubbing a piece of sandpaper.I thought of the shark's mouth with over 10,000 teeth.Now that was scarey.Ahhhh!
ReplyDeleteI read the book Space. It talked about the planets. I like to go outside at night and visualize the planets in our galaxy. I look at all of the stars that are specs of light in the sky and I see big stars that look like planets.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid Rodrick Rules by Jeff Kinney. The book is about Greg's brother Rodrick trying to tease him about his secrets in his diary. Greg writes about other people in middle school that tease him because he is little and weak. I Also write in my diary of things that happen to me everyday in school.
ReplyDeleteThis week I am reading a book called Shark. The author is Simon Mugford.The book Shark is really cool because it shows you facts about sharks and tells you about different kinds of sharks. The book Shark is really cool and I hope that I can see a shark in real life one day but it will properly be scary.
ReplyDeleteCHester by Melanie Watt. What help me visualize was the sentence that said Chester was a very handsome cat, especially when he wear a pink tutu. The story was about a mouse trying to write a book and a cat that had a red marker and kept writing other things in his book that the mouse didn't like.Thats the book about chester.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is called Diary of Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney. There is a part of the book where Greg talks about being mixed in with a bunch of older kids, he calls them gorillas. It made me think he was going to school with a bunch of animals.
ReplyDeleteI am Redding Marley and Me its about a dog that gets stolen by 2 people. I can just see the dogs getting stolen because I can imagine two people getting the dogs and putting them in a bag. I can visualize it because I have two dogs but I can't see getting them in a bag. Mine are too big.
ReplyDeleteJunie B Jones First Grader, Jingle Bells, Batman Smells, PS So does May is the most recent book that I have read. In this story, I visulized myself singing Christmas carols in my class.
ReplyDeleteRabbit's Gift by George Shannon and Laura Dronzek. The characters are Rabbit,Donkey and Goat and deer. The story is mostly about a Rabbit that found a turnip and wanted to give it to Donkey and kept passing it on to other animals. That is the story of Rabbit's Gift.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book, The Ant Bully by John Nickle, the main character, Lucas was said to have worn funny glasses and a strange hat. Some kids thought he was weird. He was always bullied by a kid named Sid. Lucas then bullied ants by flooding their colonies. I know that there are some kids who think they are too weak to fight back the bullies and they get picked on by others because they are different. I think Lucas is just different and instead of being scared, he should tell the bully to stop picking on him or tell a grown-up. He should be brave enough to do something about it so he would not always feel bad and do the same thing the bully does to him to smaller or weaker creatures.