Sunday, May 15, 2011

Video: Hit the Nonfiction Trail!



Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich have been out on the learnin' trail for quite a spell, but they have returned here to The Reading Round-Up and are ready to jaw about some truth.
Take a gander at their new film,
 

Hit the Nonfiction Trail!




Kindly drop us a comment! What nonfiction book are you readin'?

Please share an interesting fact you've learned!


What's your favorite text feature?
Now listen up all you green horns. 

Don't you go a copyin' and a pastin' what somebody else wrote. 

That's called plagarism and it ain't right!






49 comments:

  1. Howdy from Hawaii!
    I'm the librarian at Hongwanji Mission School in Honolulu, Hawaii. My colleague, JoAnn Jacobs, shared your site with me and I thoroughly enjoyed your "Nonfiction Trail".
    Could I please have your permission to share this clip with my students next school year as an instructional tool and also as a model for a Digital Media project?
    Lori Bruner Okamura,
    HMS Librarian (preschool-Grade 8)

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  2. This is a wonderfully done video that shows children what to look for in non-fiction books. I love it! There's a lot to learn in those books and they can be so fun and interesting! We have loads of them.

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  3. Howdy, Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich. Y'all rounded up some humdinger tips for readin' non-fiction books. I'm much obliged. Just to let you know, I love diagrams best of all, and sub-headings come next.

    Happy roundup!

    --U.S. Marshall Hamilton Salsich (the bearded sheriff's dad, and also a teacher)

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  4. Dear Mrs. Yollis and Mr.Salsich,

    I learnd that there is such a thing as a subheading in a book. It tells you what the paragraph is about. I also learned that a book can have a diagram. It shows how the lifecycle goes in order.

    I learnd that a Humpback whales length is 52 1/2 feet.

    From,

    Lindsay

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  5. Howdy Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff Yollis,

    Your video was great!

    I learned a lot about your video.What's interesting about it is that I found out a glossary was a mini dictionary.

    A few months ago I read a book called Oceans. Some features this book had was a glossary and a index.

    This is a wonderful book because it's about different kinds of ocean animals like sharks and seals.


    I truly liked your video!


    From,
    Nicole

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  6. Howdy Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff Yollis,

    Your video was great!

    I learned a lot about your video.What's interesting about it is that I found out a glossary was a mini dictionary.

    A few months ago I read a book called Oceans. Some features this book had was a glossary and a index.

    This is a wonderful book because it's about different kinds of ocean animals like sharks and seals.


    I truly liked your video!


    From,
    Nicole

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  7. Dear Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich,

    I love fiction books just as much as I love nonfiction books. My favorite texed feature is all of them. I love them all! I am read'in a book that is called Butterflies. A head'in in my book is called What Is A Butterfly?. A subhead'in is the life of a butterfly
    I have about 10 diagrams per. page. In this book the Index is mixed with the Glossary...weird.For example, predators: a hunter, usually carnivores(a meat eater) on page 11.

    Warmly,
    ***Ileanna***

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  8. Dear Sheriffs Salsich and Yollis
    That sure was a mighty useful learning video with a lot of great information. I like the way your video used headings, just like a non-fiction book does!

    I was very excited to see the 'Red-Eyed tree Frog' book as it is written by a very well-known New Zealand author - Joy Cowley.
    Joy Cowley has written many books that are used in New Zealand schools and she has some very popular characters in her books, like Mrs Wishy-Washy, and Greedy Cat (yes, I know, they are fiction characters!)

    We will be heading off to the library again this week to rustle up some non-fiction books, and your handy hints will help us to read and understand t them.

    from Mrs McKenzie

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  9. Dear Mrs Yollis,

    I love your slide show you and Mr Salsic did.

    Did you do that at home our at school?

    Love
    Keira in 2KJ.

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  10. Howdy all at The Reading Round-Up.
    Congrats on this great video. I would love to show it to my class very soon and I can't wait to find out what they think about it. I think they may have something to say about your cowboy and cowgirl accents. We love to read to learn as well. Our blog is our favourite homework task.
    From MrsLynch and MLY
    at http://llpsmiddle.global2.vic.edu.au

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  11. Dear Sheriffs Yollis and Salsich,
    Yee-haw! That sure was one outstanding Reading Round-up video! Y'all could be librarians if you weren't so busy as Sheriffs!
    I hope you see lots of cowpokes at your school, husslin' down to the local libraries to find themselves a new non-fiction book! Lately our dinosaur shelves have been emptied by our dino-lovin' first graders!
    Any librarian can tell you that the non-fiction section is the most busy part of their library. Everyone likes a good story from time to time (fiction), but finding out facts about horses, critters and creepy crawly things take the cake!
    Y'all have a good day now!
    Mrs. Hembree & the Bulldog Readers

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  12. Howdy Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich,

    This here's Nicole, and I have a glossary in my book Kindfisher Voyages: Oceans.

    A new word I learned is photosynthesis. It means the process in which plants change sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food, energy, oxygen, and water.


    Was it hard making the movie?

    From,
    Nicole

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  13. Dear RR,

    I've been readin' Armies of Ants. It is a really good book. An interesting fact I learned is that most types of army ants live in the rainforests and live in large groups called colonies. My favorite text features are the headings and sub-headings because they tell you what the page is going to be about.

    From,
    Derek
    in Mr. Salsich's class

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  14. Howdy Sheriffs,

    The nonfiction book hat I am reading is "The Mystery of ESP". I think that it can get a little confusing, but otherwise it is awesome!

    I learned that the mystery of ESP is basically all about telling the future in dreams, daydreams, and when you think.

    My favorite text feature is photos because I can actually see some things that is explained in the text.

    From,
    Alison in Sheriff Salsich's class.

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  15. Dear Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff Yollis,

    Great post! You made a fabulous video! One interesting fact that I found in one of my books was: The colossal squid is the biggest squid ever found! It was found in the Deep Sea around Antarctica. That squid weighed more than half a ton! I got this amazing fact from the book called Deep Sea Extremes. When I saw this fact it amazed me so much that I wanted to share it with my classmates and my teacher ( Sheriff Salsich). Keep up the good work! Happy Blogging!

    Best Wishes,
    Taylor :D

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  16. Dear RR,

    One nonfiction book that I have read is How Did They Do That? One interesting fact is that the panama canal was built all by hand! My favorite text feature is a diagram because I think you can get a lot of imformation from them.

    From,
    Sam C. in Mr. Salsich's class

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  17. Howdy RR,

    A nonfiction book I was readin' is called Brain Power. An interesting fact I learned was some people are left brained and some people are right brained .That means, if you are left brained you're better at math and solving problems than other people. And if you're right brained you 're better at playing music and more creative in art and painting. My favorite text feature is Headings and Sub-headings because they help me understand what the paragraph will be about.

    Yours Truly
    Amanda
    in Sheriff Salsichs class

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  18. Dear RR,

    Great post! I've read lots of non-fiction books before but one that I liked the most was Survival Against the Odds. It's about disasters that happen at any time. An example is Mount Pelee in Martinique that erupted and blew the top off. The eruption killed 29,000 people but only two survived. Just before the eruption 50 people and 200 animals died from snakebites in one day.

    From,
    :lol: Sam K. in Mr. Salsich's class

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  19. Dear RR,

    I read the book Living in Space,
    and my favorite fact and text feature is the diagram of a spacesuit and how you aren't allowed to eat crumbly foods in space because it would float around like a dust storm.

    Your Friend in Mr. Salsich's Class,
    Tommy

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  20. Dear RR,

    I like the post a lot!
    I loved the video especially. I have read lots of nonfiction books. A nonfiction book that I have read recently is called Living in Space and another is called How Did They Do That?.They both have lots of different text features.

    A fact from the space book is that one time, a Chinese scientist put many rockets on his chair. When he blasted off, nobody ever saw him again! Another fact from that book is that two monkeys were the first living things to go into space and come back to Earth again.

    A interesting fact from How Did They Do That is that it would take 20 fridges to make only one of the enormous building blocks that people used to make the Pyramids of Giza! WOW!

    I know there are a lot of text features, and it is hard to pick my favorites. But, I think my top 3 favorite are bold worlds, the Index, and The Table of Contents.

    Happy Blogging!

    From,
    Deputy Margot
    in Mr. Salsich's class

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  21. Dear RR

    I have been reading a book called Reptiles True or False. I only got one question wrong so far. I learned that some lizards can walk on water on their hind legs. I would like to see that.

    From
    Sean in Mr. Salsichs class

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  22. Dear Sheriffs,

    I was reading a book called Wild Wild Wolves!
    In the book I learned that wolves can go fishing! They use their sense of smell and their eyesight to catch fish in their mouths!

    From,
    Autumn in Mr .Salsich's class

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  23. Dear buckaroos,

    My non-fiction book I'm reading is called The Unexplained :GHOSTS. It is a very cool book about ghosts.

    It tells you what types of ghosts there are. For example a Phantom is a spirit (or ghost) that looks like a living breathing human being. Also a demon is an ancient, powerful evil spirit. My favorite text feature is the picture's because they show you see what the spirit or ghost looks like.

    from,
    Erik in Mr. Salsich's class

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  24. Dear RR,

    I hope you have been having a great time out on the trail! I have been reading a nonfiction book called You Wouldn't Have Wanted To Be In The Forbidden City By Jacqueline Morley. It is about the Forbidden City in China and all the reasons you wouldn't want to be in it. For instance, concubines are chosen by the Dowager Empress. They can't leave even if the Emperor get's tired of them.

    From,
    Alexandra in Mr. Salsichs class

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  25. Hey there Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Slasich,

    I loved your video about "Hit the Nonfiction Trail." Where did you film this movie?

    I've been reading a non fiction book about Henry Ford.

    From,
    Alie

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  26. Dear Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich,

    Howdy, here's Lindsay.

    I loved the video y'all made and learned a bushel-load. Subheadings in a book tell you what the paragraph is about. I also learned that a book can have a diagram. A book I have shows how the life cycle goes in order.

    I know a humpback whales length is 52 1/2 feet.

    From,

    Lindsay

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  27. Howdy Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff Yollis,

    That video was a humdinger of a video! We learned a lot. Amitai learned that a glossary is a mini-dictionary, and Jaden wants to share another text feature...the index. An index gives subjects and their page numbers! Yee haw!

    We are reading a book called Animal Champions. Did you know that a whale can dive more than 3,300 feet, and they can stay there for more than two hours! Also, a penguin can dive down to 1,750 feet in the water. We got that information from a chart that had a seal, a penguin, and a whale in it. Oh! We forgot to say that the seal could dive down to 2,000 feet in five minutes.

    From,
    Jaden and Amitai

    P.S. We did this comment in Word and our readability statistics were 5.9.

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  28. Howdy, y'all buckaroos!

    This is Deputy Adia from Sheriff Yollis' class, and I love The Reading Roundup blog, and I'm sure to comment on it more often. I thoroughly enjoyed your non- fiction video. That sure was a bulls eye, Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich!

    I just recently read a humdinger of a book called "Leonardo da Vinci: Young Artist, Writer, and Inventor." It is a biography about Leonardo da Vinci. It also is about some of the paintings that he painted and some of the inventions that he made. I learned that Leonardo da Vinci painted a various amount of famous paintings that are now found in the Louvre in France. I also discovered that he made an invention called The Flying Machine. Sadly, Leonardo wasn't successful with The Flying Machine, and it crash-landed and broke. :(

    My favorite text feature of the book is the table of contents. Although, that was my only choice anyway, because the biography had no pictures, no index, and it ain't had anything else.

    What is your favorite texture?

    What book are y'all readin' right know?

    Yee- haw!

    See y'all later,
    Deputy Sheriff Adia
    in Sheriff Yollis' class

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  29. I love your video! Can I ask what program you used to create the video? I am a 5th grade teacher and loved the quality!!!

    Emily Graves

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  30. Dear Sheriffs,

    I loved the video about nonfiction books!

    Recently, I read a book called "Ronald Reagan: An All American". I learned many very interesting facts about him, while already knowing that he was the 40-th president of the U.S.A. He was the 33rd governor of California. Also, he was an actor. If he were still alive he would be 100 years old! He was born on February 6. If he would be 100 years old if he was still alive, what year was he born in? Sadly, he died in 2004.:-(

    My favorite text feature is the glossary! It is my favorite because there are usually words I do not know in nonfiction books.

    From,
    Jaden

    (Mrs. Yollis' class)

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  31. Howdy Sheriffs,

    This here's Deputy Hannah, and I have just finished a nonfiction book called Questions and Answers: Earth and Space.

    This book has a useful table of contents in the front of the book, and in the back it has a glossary and an index. My favorite one though is the table of contents. It tells you the chapters in the book and gives you the page that it starts on.

    I learned a lot of facts in this book. Here are a few very interestin' ones:

    Continents are still moving! In fact, the continents move a little every year, about one and a half inches!

    The shortest river in the world is D River in Oregon. It is only 121 feet long!

    The highest mountain in the world from base to peak is not Mt Everest, it is actually Mauna Kea! Now, you may find it hard to believe, but it's actually under the Pacific ocean and it peaks out of the water to form one of Hawaii's islands!

    Hope you enjoyed my interestin' facts!

    Sincerely,
    ★ Hannah
    (in Mrs. Yollis' class)

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  32. Howdy,Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich,

    The non-fiction book I am reading is Ripleys Belive-It-Or-Not.In the book I found a caption. One fact that I learnt is that Bruiser the dog fell 200 feet but survived! I also learnt that the gulper eel has the largest mouth compared to the body size.

    From,
    Aaron

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  33. Howdy RR,

    I enjoy reading the posts on the blog. I really feel in charter when I read them. I think that the videos are really fun to watch too, because the are very entertaining, but educational at the same time.

    My favorite text feature in books are the photographs. I like them because when you are trying to imagine what people are looking like or something like that, you can look at the picture a see. I prefer only pictures on a few pages because I like to think about it also.

    Also, I love the text feature of captions. Captions are located under the photographs on the page mostly. I think that captions are helpful because they tell a little more about what the picture is about.

    Do you like pictures or captions better? Why?


    Warmly,

    Grace
    (Yollis)

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  34. Dear Sheriffs,

    I love all the posts that you published on the Reading Round-Up. Also, I enjoyed watching the video posts because they are entertaining and educational at the same time.

    My favorite text feature are the pictures. I like them because when you are trying to imagine what creatures look like, for example, they really explain more. I prefer not having pictures on every page, so that I can do a little more creative thinking about it.


    Warmly,

    Grace
    (Yollis)

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  35. Dear Sheriff's,

    Howdy. I've been readin' a book about the continents and I found many text features. The was one I had to jaw about.

    That one is a diagram. One of the many interestin' things it shows is its got pictures where animals live and get their food.

    Now I have some questions for ya'll.

    Have you ever been to the desert?
    Are you familiar with the diagram?
    How can I become a Sheriff?

    From,
    Cowboy Finn

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  36. Howdy Sheriff Salsich and Sheriff Yollis,

    Your video is great! I am reading a nonfiction book called The Orchestra. I learned many interesting facts about the orchestra and the instruments that play in an orchestra. One of the instruments in the woodwind family is a Double Bassoon. The double bassoon is so long that it is folded over twice. The double bassoon's notes are the lowest in the whole orchestra.

    One text feature that I saw in the book was that every new vocabulary word such as double basson is written in all capital letters.

    From,
    Miriam
    (Yollis)

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  37. Dear Sheriff Yollis,

    I loved your background and your hats that you wore in your video. I loved your accent.
    I like reading nonfiction books. One of the nonfiction books I am reading right now is about Leopard Geckos. They have fat tails that they store all of their food in. They grow to be 8 inches long. It takes 6 months for the Leopard Gecko egg to hatch. Some people might like to have a Leopard Gecko as a pet, like me.
    My favorite kind of nonfiction books are about animals because I think it is interesting to learn how they grow and live, and what their diet is. I hope I find a book about badgers in the library someday.

    From,
    Grayson

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  38. Dear Sheriffs,

    Howdy y'all. My favorite books are nonfiction ones. I have a nonfiction book about the solar system. One part in a nonfiction book is the caption. The caption tells us what is important in a picture or a diagram. My favorite nonfiction book is about animals.

    I just read a biography about Benjamin Banneker. Biographies are nonfiction books that tell us about famous people's lives.

    From,
    Andrew

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  39. Hello from Iowa. Great video about nonfiction! I love to read nonfiction. I just finished a biography of two great Americans. It was called Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. I have a stack of books and articles--about 3000 pages--to read because I'll be attending a National Endowment for the Humanities history workshop on Lincoln and slavery this summer. I love to learn, so I'm enjoying reading all the nonfiction!

    Keep up the good work!

    Sincerely,

    Mrs. Krebs
    Junior High Teacher
    Iowa

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  40. Howdy RR,

    What an interestin' post you have there. The book I have in my saddle bag is called Fifty-three and a Half Things that Changed the World. I've learned so many things, but there's one that I think is funny. In 1849, someone tried to invent the saftey pin, but failed. Their safety pin didn't work because the needle would not lock. My favorite text feature was the photos because it really gave me an idea what the invention looked like. Sometimes when there's only writing, it is confusing, so the photos are a really big help.

    See 'ya around,
    Cowboy Ryan(Mrs. Yollis' student)

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  41. Dear Sheriffs,

    The video looked great, although you did do it more than one time!

    The book that I'm readin' is called Animal Life. My favorite text features are the pictures, headings, and the sub headings. They sure are a hummdinger.
    I like the pictures, because they show you what is happening.

    The headings and the sub headings are great in a book, because they show you what the page is going to be about.

    Happy bloggin'

    From,
    Nic*las

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  42. Dear RR,


    Out of all the text features in a book, the caption is my favorite. I love the caption because it tells you what the picture is about.

    About a month ago in Mrs. Yollis' class, we did a biography as a big project. Some examples of historic people that some people chose were: Leonardo Da Vinci, Ronald Reagan, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Sally Ride.

    I was lucky enough to choose Neil Armstrong. One fact that I learned about him is that his historic flight to the moon was seven days after my birthday.(Flight: July 24 1969.)


    In my book there were many captions. In one caption there was a picture of the moon. Under it, it said: "Close up of the moon."


    Sincerely,
    Deputy Iman
    (Mrs. Yollis' class)

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  43. Howdy Sheriffs,

    I love your post! Especially the video. I am not readin' a non fiction book, but tomorrow I am going to get one. I think I am going to get an ocean book or a book about pigs.

    From,
    Kristen
    (in Mrs. Yollis' class)


    P.S. I love pigs.

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  44. Howdy Sheriffs,


    I'm Amitai and I'm readin' a book called "Snakes: Photo-Fact Collection". My favorite text feature is captions and pictures.

    I like captions because they tell y'all about the pictures. One caption told me that some rare snakes have two heads, page 26.

    I also like pictures because they show what the text is sayin' and y'all can see more details.

    See y'all on the trial.

    Your friend in Mrs. Yollis' class,

    Amitai

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  45. Dear RR,

    I am reading a book called, "Why, Why, Why do Tornadoes Spin?" This book shares information about all types of weather. One fact I learned from this book is about flooding. The Nile River floods once a year. The Egyptians made up a story about the goddess, Isis. They said that she would get so sad that she would cry into the river and make it flood.
    In this book, there is a caption that describes the picture of a person crying into a river. A caption is a text feature that tells about a picture. I also like the subheadings because they describe what I will read. In this section, What happens in a flood?, the subheadings are, "Sometimes a lot of rain falls in a few hours", "Did Noah build an ark?", and "Can there be a flood in a desert?". These text features help people understand what they are reading.

    See y'all later,
    Tucker

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  46. Dear Mrs. Yollis,

    I'm readin’ a book called The Great One. A fact that I learned about Wayne Gretzky is that he had 100 or more points in 16 seasons. That was amazing. My favorite fact is that he won the Stanley Cup 4 times with the Edmonton Oilers. The index is my favorite text feature because it tells you where I can read about Wayne winning the Stanley Cup. It also shows where her scored all of his goals.

    See Ya'll,
    Misha (in Mrs. Yollis' class)

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  47. Howdy Sheriffs,

    I love your post, especially the video. I am readin' a nonfiction book and it is calledWhales. I have learned the biggest toothed whale is the sperm whale. It is 60 feet long, and the biggest whale is the blue whale. It is more than 90 feet long!

    My favorite text feature is the table of contents because it shows
    you all the different chapters and you can see what you want to read about.


    From,
    Kristen
    (in Mrs. Yollis' class)

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  48. Howdy Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Slasich,

    I sure did enjoy your video about non-fiction books. Your Reading Round-up is a mighty fine site for young-uns. I reckon both of you are secretly teacher librarians hiding out in the classroom.

    Keep on reading.

    Your friend,
    Sheryl Weiss
    A.E.Wright Middle School
    Room 16

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  49. @ Sheryl Weiss,

    Much obliged that you'd take the time to drop ol' Sheriff Yollis and Sheriff Salsich a reply.

    We are mighty fond of books and libraries, as you can see! Maybe you can use our nonfiction video to teach the little buckaroos about text features! Yee haw!

    Sincerely,
    Sheriff Yollis

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