2: I learned that your birthday is just like any other day. You can feel happy just like you can feel sad. You can feel eleven or maybe nine.

3: This strategy might make me a better reader because it will help me find traits in characters that can make them more relatable. It can also make me see a deeper meaning in the story

2. I learned that you can act older or younger than you are just like everyone in the world. You can act three when your twenty four.

3. It helps you understand what the character is going through in the book. It might connect to you some how too

2. I learned that no matter how old you are you can be yourself, even if you're 102 and want to act like you're 5.

3. It helps you put yourself in someone else's shoes and try to feel the way they do. It can help you get through a book faster, too.

2. I learned that it is okay to feel and want to act like you are five years old, even if you are really eleven. It happens to everybody one point in their lives.

3. I think annotating will make me a better reader because annotating makes it so you really have to try and understand what the author is saying and what they characters are feeling.

2) I learned that age doesn't have to impact how you feel and how you act.

3) This strategy can make me a better reader because I will be able to understand the character(s) and I can learn things in life that I didn't know before

2) I learned that no matter how old you are, you can still be any other age and it's okay to be eleven and want to act like you're three.

3) I believe that annotating will make me a better reader because it will help me better understand what is going on the book and really know what thoughts go through the character's mind.

2.I learned by handwriting down/annotating what is in my mind helps me actually understand my own thoughts better.

3. Annotating might make me/someone else a better reader by understanding the book more and seeing the book in other ways.

2. What I learned is when you look a little bit closer to something you can realize more.

3. This will make me a better reader because it will make me read harder and re read it so I can memorize it more.

2. I learned that when you are crying that could be the part of them that is 3, and sometimes you don't act your age.

3. Annotating might make me a better reader because it can help me see the book in a different perspective.

2. I learned that age is just a number and you can act however old you want to act.

3. This strategy would help me put myself in the characters shoes and interact with the text. It makes it easier to understand and relate to the story, as well as make personal connections.

2: I learned that she went to a pretty bad school between the teacher yelling at her even though its not her fault and her classmates not saying a thing.

3: I can pay attention more to the details of the story

2. I learned that no matter how old you are, all of the personalities that you had when you were younger, will ever really be gone.

3. This strategy can make me a better reader by helping me understand a lot of connections from the text to things in real life and it will make me think more about what I am reading.

2. I learned that your age doesn't define who you are, you can be 30 but you can still be a 4 year old child, it doesn't mean you are immature, everyone experiences some kind of mood that makes them want to be that little kid again.

3. This strategy might help me play with my mind a little which may make me understand things better and I will be able to see from different perspectives.

2. What I learned from the text that I didn't see before was basically that when you're one age, you can actually be any age that you want to be in your past years or your years to come.

3. This strategy would make me a better reader because I would be able to understand the story a lot more and it allows me to understand certain things that I would not have before I even read the story.

2. I learned that you can never be one age for a whole year. You need to have those days when you need to sit in your moms lap from being scared or have a REALLY big tantrum because you didn't get what you wanted because you can never forget your past years of growing.

3. Annotating might make me a better reader because when I go back to annotate I would really have to think about the situation, phrase or even word that I'm explaining. And from that, I would have to understand instead of just reading through the book just to know the story or message the author is trying to point out.