Fiction vs. Nonfiction

Fiction and nonfiction are both wonderful, but I like fiction better. With a fiction text, there seems to be more creativity and your own style. However, fiction stories can easily get thrown off course without proper narration. In a nonfiction text, they have facts that narrators say, but usually no characters. It's harder to create dialog between  characters. I personally like fiction books better, because you can create a voice and really make your character come to life. Nonfiction books are harder to create a voice with. You don't have to have a voice, but it makes the story more intriguing. Whether you like fiction or nonfiction, reading is still a blast!


            By:Devon

Fiction vs Nonfiction

Okay what is the difference between nonfiction and fiction? Well nonfiction is like the story we did in Readers Theater called Under the Snow by Mellisa Stewart it talks about real things that happen when it snows. Fiction is like the book we did called The Three Little Pigs by James Marshall. That book is about a talking wolf and three talking pigs,now does that sound real? Today we did a podcast on the two nonfiction books both by Melissa Stewart the one I did was called Under the Snow, the other one we did was called When Rain Falls. Some of my favorite books are realistic fiction like The Boxcar Children. My favorite
between those three would be realistic fiction because if it is sad then I know that it didn't really happen.


                                                             By  Miles

Fiction v.s Nonfiction

    I think that a fiction Reader's Theater is better than a nonfiction Reader's Theater because I just like it when we have freedom of our voices. In nonfiction Reader's Theaters we have to create a voice that would most likely sound like that person/animal. I don't think we really have to do that in a fiction Reader's Theater. One thing that I love about Reader's Theater is that even though I like fiction Reader's Theaters better,  we do nonfiction and fiction and that makes me a little more comfortable with nonfiction Reader's Theaters.

     The podcast today was ( I think ) ALOT better than the last one. We finally got to listen to ourselves. I think I sounded pretty good and so did everybody else.

                                                                                                                ~ Zoya

Nonfiction Readers Theater vs. Fiction Readers Theater

     Well, in the fiction script, we got to have fun characters and narrators! We also drew fun pictures that could look like whatever they are!!! On a podcast, we had no troubles because most of us didn't have voices to worry about and we were all cool with the fact that it was a fantasy story.So, I loved the fiction story!
     In the nonfiction story, at first I felt like I would hate this Reader's Theater script because it's nonfiction.Yet, along the way I started liking this book because of my humorous group. When we were podcasting, all of the animals' voices sounded "different." We had a few laughs until the end where we had a HUGE laugh from the end when we made our animal noises. Ryan made  wolf voice that took up all of our animal sounds even though there wasn't any wolf in the story!It made an echo sound in the recording. In the end, he became a duck!!This podcast was WAY better than the last one.I'll never forget it.
     I really loved both stories from facts to humorous wolves. I loved both of the stories,yet my favorite Reader's Theater I did is the nonfiction text. My favorite part about it would be the fun and laughs I had with my group and most importantly...THE STORY! It was like reading heaven! I should not be taking the credit for this. Here are the names of my group: Kerry, Zoya,AJ,Michael, and Ryan.You guys are awesome!

                                                                                                                     -  Emily

Fiction vs. Non Fiction

I liked the non fiction script because the dialog was more creative. It was really fun to think about what these different animals would say. It was non fiction but it was fun. The fiction script was also fun but it wasn't educational. The fiction book told more of a story than the non fiction. They were both really fun to do. I really do think that I liked the non fiction script better. I really liked the animal sounds that the author made up. It was a good experience to do both. I cant wait to do readers theater again because I know it will be just as fun as the others.
                                       Ryan

My experience with Melissa Stewart

Today I got to meet the author of two great Reader's Theater books When Rain Falls and Under the Snow. Both by Melissa Stewart . She got the idea for the cover of Under the Snow  when she was hiking she saw a pond that had been iced over . She thought that newts hibernated in the winter but she saw newts swirling in a pond! It also took her five years to write Under the Snow!            Melissa published her first book in 1998 ! So she has been writing great books for thirteen years ! She gets her information for her books by interviewing scientists so she can get information for her great books. Mrs. Melissa gave us some tips for Reader's Theater! I am so excited for her new and upcoming books!     Emma

Skype with author

I think that it was awesome when we got to use skype with the author. I learned that  without monkeys there would be no chocolate. I can't wate untill the new book comes out, No Monkeys no Chocolate. I didn't even think that she