This week, we begin our new unit on nonfiction reading. I would like to learn about your attitudes about nonfiction reading. What topics do you like to read about? What is hard about nonfiction reading? What is easy? Tell me and your classmates about your favorite nonfiction text that you have read in the past.
I will go first: Right now, I am reading the autobiography of Tim Howard and I find that I am learning so much about soccer. Before I read this book, I didn't know the difference between a striker and a keeper. I also didn't know much about the strategies you need to play soccer. I usually like to read about history, particularly the Revolutionary War. My favorite nonfiction text is Nubs, which I will share with you later this week.
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Solomon Oh
11/9/2015 04:11:17 pm
I like to read topics with animal in nonfiction. Nonfiction is hard because most of them have too much words. Nonfiction is easy because the picture docs give me some examples of what it means or what it's talking about. My favorite nonfiction in the past was the books about presidents.
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HARSHIKA
11/10/2015 07:43:36 pm
I also like to read topics with animals in non fiction.
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Madison Maher
11/16/2015 05:18:05 pm
Me too!!
marco Guddat
11/13/2015 04:41:25 pm
I like animals to.
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jimmy
11/9/2015 04:15:16 pm
I like nonfiction the best . I like to read about animals the most . When I read nonfiction I feel like I'm neck to the animal .
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nader
11/12/2015 06:46:36 pm
I like animals to.
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Eshaan Malik
11/12/2015 07:45:22 pm
What animals do you like the most Jimmy?
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Cnetzel
11/9/2015 04:27:46 pm
I like to read about famous people and movie stars because they interest me. The thing that is hard about reading nonfiction is some times theirs hard words i just can't understand and I have no clue what they even mean. The thing that is easy for me is looking at the pictures to tell me more about who ever that is and what they look like.Well right now i'm reading about Babe Ruth a famous base ball player he was a great hitter he loved baseball and his parents drooped his parents off at an orfanige because he kept on running off.
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Natalie Cioch
11/12/2015 07:13:34 pm
That sounds like an interesting biography! I wonder why he always runs away? Also, doesn't Babe Ruth's parents love him? I would sure love to find out!
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Hannah Lin
11/9/2015 04:41:15 pm
I like to read adventure and mystery books like right now i am reading a book about a boy who deformed when he was born. Before i didn't know about deformation, it was hard to believe that that kind of thing was rare for young new borns. About non-fiction writing, it is kind of hard and boring because when you research something, it gets hard to concentrate because it gets king of boring then. Also when reading non-fiction, it is kind of easy because you get to learn new facts about different topics. In the past, i did a non-fiction report about Chimpanzes!
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Caroline Feng
11/11/2015 08:06:29 pm
What is your favorite thing to read in non-fiction?
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Benjamin Furry
11/9/2015 04:47:33 pm
The nonfiction I like the best is books about animals and I also like biographies about artists. I find it hard because you have to remember more of the facts and in fiction you have to remember the bigger parts, not facts. I don't kind much easy about nonfiction because I find it kind of boring. One non fiction text I liked was about the painter Van Gogh. I liked to learn about how he lived and how his room changed over time and that showed in his art.
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Luca Napolitano
11/10/2015 06:27:57 pm
I do too!
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jimmy
11/11/2015 05:07:35 pm
I love Vincent Van Gogh! I saw his work at the MOMA. My favorite painting is Starry Night!
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Nate
11/11/2015 08:00:41 pm
I agree it is hard memorizing facts!
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Emily Asuncion
11/9/2015 05:00:07 pm
When I was in second grade I read a biography about Rosa Parks. When I read the biography I learned how white people treated colored people. It was kind of hard to read the biography because it had words I did not know the definition of like boycott and segregation. It was also easy because it was easy to picture it in my mind. My favorite nonfiction topic is biographies.
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Fatimah Siddiqui
11/10/2015 05:59:37 pm
I also liked reading about Rosa parks
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Natalie Cioch
11/12/2015 06:53:08 pm
In my biography book "Josephine" the main character talked about segregation,this made me look up the word and figure out what it means. Good point!!!!
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Derrick Choi
11/9/2015 05:02:02 pm
I like to read about natural disasters like tornadoes. Also I like to look at the past and see the dinosaurs. I think getting information is easy about nonfiction reading. All nonfiction books have tons of information about a subject. I think visualizing is hard to do in nonfiction. You just read information.
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Jimmy
11/11/2015 05:08:58 pm
I think natural disaster are cool to read about. When I am reading I can imagine that I am there.
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Timothy Himmelheber
11/12/2015 04:01:21 pm
I agree that visualizing is hard it's only easy if there desceribing it
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Sunjay Kadam
11/12/2015 04:42:54 pm
I have trouble getting the info.. Also, I can visualize pretty well.
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mikayla m
11/9/2015 05:12:01 pm
I like reading about the past in non fiction like war. also I think reading the captions is hard. I like seeing the pitchers on non fiction books.
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Nate
11/11/2015 08:01:21 pm
What topic do you like to read about?
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Emma
11/16/2015 04:23:59 pm
I also like looking at the pictures
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Timothy Himmelheber
11/9/2015 05:30:31 pm
Right now I'm reading Hope Solo. It was not that hard to understand because I know a lot about soccer and because I know how to play soccer. What's hard about nonfiction is that I don't know what read first. What easy is that I know what mostly all the words and what they mean. I like to read weird but true and I also like history a lot and I have a lot of history books at my house.
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Ryan
11/10/2015 06:46:45 pm
That is cool!
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Evelyn Chao
11/9/2015 05:34:19 pm
I am not a fan of nonfiction, it sometimes seems boring. Although, I like reading about animals, nature, and science. I still can't figure out why I don't like nonfiction, but I think I can't remember all these facts.
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Anthony Kerzhman
11/11/2015 08:42:12 pm
I agree with you Evelyn. I also don't really like nonfiction but I only like to read about animals. It tells about animals in really big detail. I also like books about spiders. That is the only nonfiction I really like. The others are boring.
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Constantine
11/12/2015 05:33:21 pm
I agree. I don't like nonfiction either.
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Prashasth Turaga
11/9/2015 05:48:39 pm
I haven't read many nonfiction books, but my favorite is the Who Was? and Who Is? series. It is like a kid-version of biographies so us kids can understand. Every time I go to the East Brunswick Public Library I always get one of these series. Soon, I'm going to start reading the biography of King Tut.
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Shana Jacob
11/10/2015 05:44:11 pm
Ohh,king tut!!
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Fatimah Siddiqui
11/10/2015 05:56:19 pm
I also like the Who was?/Who is? Series.It is filled with amazing facts about people.
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Eshaan Malik
11/12/2015 07:55:28 pm
What books have you read in the Who Is? and Who Was? series?
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Emilie Apollonsky
11/9/2015 05:51:24 pm
In non fiction my faivorite topics are animals.
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Madison Maher
11/11/2015 06:16:55 pm
I love reading books about animals too!!
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Kate
11/12/2015 06:59:21 pm
if you want to know what you read use post-its
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Caroline Feng
11/9/2015 05:58:27 pm
I like reading about sports.Some hard things about non-fiction reading is sometimes you do not know what to read about.Since non-fiction is not my favorite gerne i sometimes do not know what to read.The easy thing about non-fiction is read whatever you like.
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Jillian
11/11/2015 05:23:26 pm
I have the same problems with reading nonfiction books .
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Timothy Himmelheber
11/12/2015 04:07:26 pm
I also LIKE read about sports.
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Fatimah Siddiqui
11/9/2015 05:58:52 pm
When I read Non-Fiction I enjoy reading about people that changed the world.Something that is hard about Non-Fiction reading is that you have to pay attention to every detail to get what the author is saying.Someting easy about Non-Fiction reading is that you can skip to any chapter you want and read about a certain thing about a topic.If you picked up a fiction book and did that,you would not get anything in the story.My favorite Non-Fiction text that I have read is called"Who is Rosa Parks?"It is about Rosa Parks and her big role in helping stop segregation.
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Fatimah Siddiqui
11/9/2015 06:06:16 pm
When I read Non-Fiction I enjoy reading about people that changed the world.Something that is hard about Non-Fiction reading is that you have to pay attention to every detail to get what the author is saying.Someting easy about Non-Fiction reading is that you can skip to any chapter you want and read about a certain thing about a topic.If you picked up a fiction book and did that,you would not get anything in the story.My favorite Non-Fiction text that I read is called "Who is Rosa Parks?"It is about Rosa Parks and her big role in helping stop segregation.
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Caroline Feng
11/10/2015 07:33:33 pm
I agree about wnat is easy.
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Harshika
11/10/2015 07:48:28 pm
I also enjoy reading about people that changed the world like Thomas Edison.
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Sarah Robertson
11/9/2015 06:07:22 pm
My attitude for reading nonfiction is excited because I'm always excited to do more. I don't really think that nothing is really hard for nonfiction. Nonfiction is really easy because it's really easy to learn about new stuff.
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amanda
11/12/2015 04:41:39 pm
Wow Sarah, you have a great outlook. I need to try more non fiction,
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Kylie Kay
11/12/2015 08:20:40 pm
What was your favorite book that was nonfiction that you read?
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Emma
11/16/2015 04:22:22 pm
I also like to read about nonfiction. It always gives you more information on your topic.
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Clara
11/9/2015 06:10:39 pm
My favorite nonfiction topics are about animals, dogs, and facts. I think nonfiction is easy because it's fun to search for interesting facts. I think nonfiction is hard because sometimes it's hard to find the right book when there are so many interesting books right in front of you! One fact book I've read was,"The Ripley's Believe or Not!" I don't like this book because it's too scary! My favorite nonfiction book was a fact book called "Weird But True." This book tells you all about cool and interesting facts. Did you know that some artists made a giant, stuffed, pink bunny that could be seen from space?
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Shana Jacob
11/9/2015 06:14:05 pm
Normally, I don't go for non fiction books, but if it's about animals, I'm there. I love reading about animals. What's easy about non fiction...well collecting data and facts. But what's hard is if you don't get what it means and say...you are writing an essay about spiders. They don't have 8 legs on each side. All their legs EQUAL 8. What's my favorite non fiction book I have read in the past? I have not finished this book yet, but Presidential Pets come to mind. Mrs Barry let me take it home, and I LOVE the book. Of course I am taking it back to her library, but, I wish I could keep it. It's all the pets that lived in the White House! Did you know that Washington(our first president) wanted to make a new breed of dog so much, he created the breed, American fox hound?
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Clara
11/10/2015 04:59:28 pm
Cool!
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Kyle Liu
11/9/2015 06:57:13 pm
I like reading about different animal species in non-fiction, it's hard to get all the data you need because usually one chapter is 2-4 pages long, it's easy to find the subtopics you want to find because you can skip chapters. One non-fiction text I read about is spiders it was about their habitat and stuff like that.
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CJ
11/11/2015 05:04:55 pm
I like to read the same
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Jacob Mcintyre
11/11/2015 06:22:28 pm
I like spiders to.
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Shana Jacob
11/18/2015 05:23:50 pm
I don't like spiders.
Nate
11/9/2015 07:12:51 pm
In nonfiction I like the topic animials.It is hard reading a nonfiction book because it is so boring!There is no dialogue,action,and there are no characters!My favorite nonfiction text is the World Of Animials.
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Ryan
11/10/2015 06:47:38 pm
I aggre 100%
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Jacob McIytre
11/11/2015 06:28:08 pm
Some have stories in them.
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Kate
11/12/2015 07:02:03 pm
I love reading about animals.
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Jacob McIntyre
11/10/2015 08:04:52 am
my favorite topic is science. I like to learn about what new discovery and what scientist are trying to figure out.
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Benjamin Furry
11/10/2015 08:32:57 pm
I like reading about science too
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Madison Maher
11/11/2015 06:16:20 pm
i also love science
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Nader
11/12/2015 06:49:10 pm
What did you learn.
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Kylie Kay
11/12/2015 08:16:56 pm
Do you find anything hard about nonfiction?
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Madison Maher
11/10/2015 10:31:20 am
I like to read about animals and topics about science!! Nothing is really hard about reading non-fiction because i really read it often at my house when i am bored!!So it really helps me get better at reading non-fiction! What is easy about non-fiction is that when you are reading it you can really just understand it for me!! I really like the book 100 facts about animals!! I read it and i just loved it and my friend told me about it and i read it so much!!
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Clara
11/10/2015 05:02:53 pm
"100 Facts About Animals" sounds very interesting!
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Luca Napolitano
11/10/2015 06:26:40 pm
I like reading about animals too!
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Amanda
11/12/2015 04:40:50 pm
I am going to try to read that book about the animals.
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marco Guddat
11/13/2015 04:38:18 pm
I like since to.
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Emma
11/16/2015 04:19:01 pm
It is so cool to learn about animals. There are always new things to learn.
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Ashten
11/10/2015 04:25:33 pm
I think that nonfiction book are so fun but are hard to under stand the a some wards in the book that I am reading for the first time.
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Benjamin Furry
11/10/2015 08:32:08 pm
I agree with you.
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CJ
11/11/2015 05:04:11 pm
I think the same
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Jillian
11/11/2015 05:19:26 pm
What kind of nonfiction books do you like to read ?
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Armaan
11/10/2015 04:50:34 pm
One topic i like to read about is geogrify. ONe thing that is hard is meimerising about what happened bad to that cirtain person. One thing that is easy about reading is finding details. My favorite nonficticon text is our new jersey. The social studies text book.
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Nader
11/10/2015 05:31:56 pm
My favorite non-fiction book is called spiders. I like this book because it has many facts about spiders that I have not learned before. for example I learned that one spider has venomous webs to catch it's prey.
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varun
11/24/2015 04:51:29 pm
spiders are gross but i like the books of them
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Eshaan Malik
11/10/2015 06:12:03 pm
I like to read about dogs. Nonfiction reading is hard because you have to remember all the facts especially if you are doing research. The easy part of nonfiction books is that they are easy to understand. They tell me many interesting facts about different kinds of dogs.
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Luca Napolitano
11/10/2015 06:25:34 pm
I like reading about animals because when I grow up I want to be a zoologists.so, I need to know a lot about animals. My favorite nonfiction book is the fight for survival it teaches you about animals life style.
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Ryan
11/10/2015 06:45:51 pm
My favorite topic to read about is autobiography, spy books and soccer books.The thing about books are some have hard words that you don't know what the words mean.The easy part about reading is visalising and piking out a just right book for your self.I'm reading Evil Spy School it looked like a hard book to read but I looked hard but it wasn't hardat all.So don't juge a book by it's cover.
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Aaron lam
11/10/2015 06:58:09 pm
I thin that non-fiction books are knowledgeable because it will make your thinking smarter in soical studies
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varun
11/24/2015 04:50:28 pm
I agree
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Matthew
11/10/2015 07:10:31 pm
In my book I had Mrs. Jewls in the book Wayside School Is Falling Down. Mrs. Jewls changed because first she was calm and she was being nice to all her students, then she got on the mean side and she was saying shut up, giving them extra work, and spilling pickle juice on them. :3
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harshika
11/10/2015 07:40:17 pm
I like to read animals non fiction. Non fiction is hard because you have to write lots of details and facts.Non fiction is easy because it displays pictures which defines everything.I was reading a book on sea animals in the past.
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Amanda
11/10/2015 07:50:07 pm
I don't like non-fiction but I read a book last year and I kind off liked the book was called 50 weird animals. I liked that there where picture of animals that I never even heard of. I learned about new animals too. I think I should try more non fiction... Any suggestions?
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Daniel Y
11/10/2015 07:52:13 pm
OH I know this book its called the goal keeper I think!
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CJ
11/10/2015 08:08:21 pm
In nonfiction reading I like to read about animals. I like this because I get to learn about interesting animals such as the vampire squid or the blue lobster. I like to learn about these things because I am an all around animal lover. nonfiction is easy because you do not have to read a lot of the book understand the book like fiction. something hard about nonfiction is that there is little captions that are mostly small so they can blend in and be difficult to see. I think the best nonfiction book I have ever read was definitely nonfiction about fish. While reading this book I learned a lot about different fish like what they eat, if they hunt what do they hunt, how deep under water they live, there names,etc. All of the reasons above are my opinion about nonfiction.
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Aaron lam
11/10/2015 10:07:20 pm
In Dinosaurs Extinction, scientists think that an ancient meteorite struck in the prehistoric times when the dinosaurs lived. The dinosaurs were scared about the meteorite that they ran for cover at five in the morning when the meteorite struck.
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Emily Reiss
11/10/2015 10:35:09 pm
I like biographies because I like learning about famous people. I read a Helen Keller biography and I learned a lot about her struggles and victories.
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Jillian Bradley
11/11/2015 05:17:02 pm
If Im reading a nonfiction book I would read about fishes and other sea animals . When I read nonfiction it is sometimes hard to understand the mane idea of the book .Reading is easy when the book makes sense .
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Evelyn Chao
11/11/2015 05:55:07 pm
I think non fiction is hard because you have to remember all the facts. Non fiction can be easy because the books are usually short. Personally, I don't like reading nonfiction because I find it boring, even with the interesting facts. Otherwise I can't find books with interesting topics. I like Newsela, which has interesting topics and is nonfiction.
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Ava N.
11/11/2015 07:17:43 pm
What topics I like to read about is animals , and sea creatures .What is hard about nonfiction books are that sometimes you don't know how to figure out if it is true or not some parts. What's easy about it is that it relate's to real life.
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Theresa
11/11/2015 08:17:52 pm
I like to read non fiction topics about animals, specifically dogs. The hard part about non fiction is storing all different kinds of facts in your head and remembering them. The easy part is that you can relax, and learn more facts about your topic. My favorite non fiction book is a biography on Jonny Appleseed. I liked that book because it told me a lot about how Jonny Appleseed got his name. When I was little, I was always wondering how Jonny Appleseed got his name.
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Emma
11/16/2015 04:17:09 pm
I love to read about dogs!
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Sam
11/19/2015 11:18:03 am
Me too, I love to read about dogs!
Natalie
11/11/2015 08:18:43 pm
My favorite non-fiction topics are fun facts you find in books or magazines. I like fun facts because they are surprisingly true! For example, did you know fortune cookies were invented in San Francisco?
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Anthony K
11/11/2015 08:44:40 pm
I like reading nonfiction about sports,animals,spiders and science.
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Peiyu
11/11/2015 09:24:48 pm
I like nonfiction the best because it is fun to read
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Sasha Marcinczyk
11/12/2015 04:31:10 pm
I like true stories about two different animals becoming friends and stories about animals saving people. Those are my favorite because at the end of each story it made me feel happy or in a good mood. Also it makes me feel like wow that is cool or amazing. My favorite book is Tara and Bella.
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Amanda
11/12/2015 04:38:48 pm
I don't really enjoy non fiction. I have read a book called 50 Weird Animals. I did find it interesting and east to read. I am open to other people suggestions on some interesting non fiction books.
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Lydia Lee
11/12/2015 04:43:18 pm
I think nonfiction reading is very interesting! They have all facts about a topic. I like anything I read in non fiction. But I think it is hard because there are a lot of hard and long words. But I can just pick it out of the glossary.
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Sara
11/12/2015 05:46:36 pm
My favorite type of nonfiction reading is an autobiography because I could really get into the story and be the person.
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Constantine
11/12/2015 05:59:14 pm
I don't like nonfiction and don't have a favorite nonfiction topic.
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Kate
11/12/2015 06:54:43 pm
I like reading Nonfiction books because you get to learn about other peoples lives. I wonder what happened in there life and if that can ever happen to me.
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Kylie Kay
11/12/2015 08:14:26 pm
I don't ussaly read nonfiction books. But when I do I like to read about animals most of the time at least. I don't really find anything hard about nonfiction reading.
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Decklin
11/13/2015 08:51:32 am
I like to read about new places and animals in nonfiction. It's hard sometimes because there's a lot of information. It's easy because it's very interesting. I would like to read more about history. I really liked a book that I read about penguins, I learned a lot of things that I never knew.
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marco Guddat
11/13/2015 04:36:08 pm
I like to read ackshon and mistery.reading to myself is easy because I can just read. Running reckerds are hard because I need to read to a teacher.
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Emma
11/16/2015 04:15:56 pm
I like reading nonfiction. I don't think anything is that hard about nonfiction. What I think is easy about nonfiction is it's easy to learn about new things.
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Varun
11/24/2015 04:48:00 pm
In non fiction my favorite topic is soccer players. In non fiction the thing that is hard is long and hard words. My favorite non fiction book is Leonel Messi soccer star. My attitude about non fiction is that its my 3rd favorite genre after mystery and fantasy.
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