Reading Response Question For The Week Of October 11-15:
Visualizing is “picture-making” in your mind! It can make the words on a page become ferocious fire-breathing beasts on one page or a gentle breeze blowing across a field on another. When the author uses words that are descriptive, we can use our imaginations to create a mental movie that makes us feel like we are actually part of the action!
Think about the book you are reading at home. What words or phrases did you find especially easy to visualize? Which part of the book made the mental pictures come into your mind?
At home, I am reading a book called Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas. In it, people are getting off of a train and the author writes, “they gripped the handrails because the steps were steep and their legs were short, and they frowned and blinked into the white-hot sun.” That part really made me visualize them squinting and coming down off of a high train. Then the author writes, “Most of them were men, dressed in suits, rumpled now, with ties that were loosened, and straw hats.” I felt like I could really see those tired travelers!
ReplyDeleteAt home I am reading Cat and Mouse in a Haunted House.In it Geronimo goes into a haunted house and the author writes''my whiskers were dripping with water.
ReplyDeleteAt home I am reading June B Toothless Wonder. In it Junie loses a tooth. The author writes " BLOOD! BLOOD! THERE'S BLOOD IN MY SPIT!" I can really see Junie standing there with blood in her mouth. It reminds me of when I lost a tooth.
ReplyDeleteI am reading the book called Dinosaurs Before Dark. I visualize a tyrannosaurus rex. I visulaize him with very big teeth, and he was very big and scary.
ReplyDeleteI have read a book called Little House on the prarie.It is about this little girl and she moves to the prarie.I could picture my self being in the book.
ReplyDeleteAt home Im reading a book called blueberies for sal.when they are picking them sal eats one. I viasulized his mama picking and sal eating with an empty bucket.
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book called Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw. In it Manny's dad accidently threw away his blanket. So he wanted to get revenge by using his dad's civil war battlefield as a playset. When I read civil war battlefield i saw, in my mind, little tiny toy guys with army helmets and cannons and little muskets and pistols.
ReplyDeleteAt home I'm reading a book called Think Corrie Think. It's by:Jane O' Conner and illustrated by: Laurie Struck Long. Ther are barely any pictures in it. This book makes me videolize(its a word Shannon made up in class) which is were you make a video in your head instead of a picture in your head. The sentence that made me videolize the most is "It was like her tongue got all frozen". That made me videolize Corrie just standing very still trying to think of something to say to Krissy A.. It also made videolize her tongue just sitting ther not moving a tiny little bit. I didn't even see it move an inch or a cm.. Corrie is Spanish, has brown curly hair, brown eyes, brown eyebrows, her hair is down to her shoulders, and she has a strip of hair that is a bang that is just barly touching her eyebrow. Now you know about the part I think is very intresting and very discripted to me.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid, The Last Straw.In the book,Greg is on a sky lift that takes him to school.I can picture the sky lift
ReplyDeletetaking people up and down.I go snow boarding every year so I can picture it clearly.
I read the book Horrible Harry and the Ant Invasion by Suzy Kline. In this book Doug talks about Harry's mother's fudge. He says, "I drooled. I knew how good Harry's mother's fudge was. Chocolate, nutty and Mmmmmmmmmmmmm good." I can just imagine Doug drooling and how good it would taste. There is another sentence where Harry pours ice water down Sidney's back. Sidney screams "Yeoooooow! That's Cold!". I can imagine how Sidney feels. It also reminds me of when my mom threw a cup of cold water down my shirt this summer.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Magic Tree House #14 Day of the Dragon King. I could see the silk weaver weaving the silk. I could also feel the silk. It was described as being smooth and soft.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Mr. Putter & Tabby Make a Wish. One part of the book the author wrote, Mrs. teaberry was carrying an ENORMOUS cake loaded with DOZENS of candles. I think Mr. Putter must be 80 years old with all those candles. Then, in another part it says, it took Mr. Putter, Tabby, Mrs. Teaberry, and Zeke days and days to eat the cake. I can visualize the cake must be 12 inches high and 24 inches wide.
ReplyDeleteat home im reading a book called shadow of a bull.i really like the book.it is for my bookreprot.the main character is manolo.his dad was a great bull rider.he wants manolo to be just like him,but manolo wants to be a doctor.i don't know what he is going to do.but so far i love the book.:)
ReplyDeleteI am reading The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight. In it I can see the white farmhouse in my mind and I can picture the scarecrow.
ReplyDeleteAt home I'm reading Mostly Ghostly Eight Spooky Tales To Chill Your Bones. I Read the short stroy Rose Rose by Barry Pain. I found it easy to visualize how pretty Rose was as she was modeling for a painting. The author used words like Greek goddess of love and her talents were extraordinary that artists always came back to her.
ReplyDeleteIn the book Dark Day in the Deep Sea, a large white bird swooped by Jack and Annie and flew into the woods. It was a seagull. I could picture a seagull flying in the direction of the treehouse and Jack and Annie following it. This was easy to see because I see birds flying in the sky everyday.
ReplyDeleteI am reading The Fire Within, in the book Liz's mom, Mrs.Penny Kettle is making the visiter, David, a dragon with a pencil and a notebook. The dragon had spiky wings, big flat feet, tiled green scales with turquoise flashes. The characteristic oval-shaped eyes had a gentle, cheery helpful look-but there was deep sensitivity in them, too, as if the creature could weep at the drop of a scale. Can you visualize that to?
ReplyDeleteI am reading a book called Gooseberry Park writen by Cynthia Rylant. In the text it describes a red squirrel named Stumpy who is feeling a nesting instinct. "Keep busy! Keep busy! The author tells me about when Stumpy visits the trash can and finds bits of cloth and other nesting material for her home. In my mind I see Stumpy scurrying about picking up bits of cloth and nesting material. It reminds me of the squirrels in my woods.
ReplyDeleteThe Librarian from Black lagoon.I was afraid the first time I thought the librarian would be mean If you were caught taking she would laminate you!Then we went into the library and she was really nice im glad that I dont have mean librarian.
ReplyDeleteThe book I am reading is called Double Fudge by JUDY BLUME.I could videolize(a word adain made up) Fudge walking up to the person who owns New York and saying hi how much is New York?I also could see Fudge sneaking in to everyone's room and stealing everyone's money so he could buy New York.
ReplyDeleteThe School Nurse from the Black Lagoon. I can visualize a giant needle going through six kids for a vaccination and they looked like a shish kebab. When I go to the nurse she only sticks one kid at a time. That giant needle looks like it hurts.
ReplyDeleteI am reading Great Sharky Shark A Tail of a Big Hunter. It is about a big great white shark that gets in trouble when he gets a plastic ring around his neck from the human Trash Place. He is hunting for food on the shipwreck when his plastic ring gets caught on a jagged piece of wood. He did not see the shadow of the great big Tiger Shark comming closer and closer to him. While I read this I can visualize a big tiger shark comming after a stuck shark.
ReplyDeleteI am reading PUGSLEY,in the book it says, Huge dogs and tiny dogs, curly-haired dogs and long eared dogs, and dogs with big, fluffy tails. I could picture all sorts of dogs walking down the sidewalk or in a pet store.
ReplyDeleteThe story i'm reading is called Players in Pigtails by Shana Corey. In it the aauthor writes "But there was one thing katie was good at. Baseball. Katie could catch any ball with any mitt with her eyes closed. She could hit any ball with any bat with one hand behind her back." That part made me visualize her standing on the field with something over her eyes and playing ball. i wish i could do that.
ReplyDeleteGavin said ...The book I am reading is called Poison by Tammi Salzano and Heather Dakota. One of the animals I read about was the Death Stalker Scorpion. The name sounds scarey and poisoness. I could visualize the stinger at the tip of its tail.
ReplyDeleteThe book that I am reading is "The Whisper of Glocken." What really put a picture into my mind was when the author said "By the current... Frowning he turned back to the window, not quite knowing what it was that struck him as odd about the scene. Where the Watercress was wont to flow placidly toward the wide tunnel mouth there was now a great sploshing and foaming of waves." The picture in my mind that it made was all this water swirling around and it was sort of cool how it got stuck into my mind like that.
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