How do you feel about reading? Explain your answer.

I posed this question to my new 9th graders as part of their first homework assignment. Here are some of the responses, all verbatim:

How I feel about reading is that I love to read books that I find very interesting and its very smooth all around.

I love to read especially books that have shiny covers.

I like to read, mostly fiction books because of the knowledge I never knew.

When it comes down to reading I am neutral about.

I feel good about reading because it is a good thing where you can occupied the mind and stuff.

I love English but I don't like putting that out there because I feel people will look at me weird as I'm a guy that writes poems about heartbreak and love.

I am starting to get mix feelings of reading because I love stories and books but the reading as tested wise I am not very good at not strong and it is not where I need to be.

I don't like reading because it takes thinking.

I don't like reading that much because it usually makes me tired because when I was younger I use to read so I could fall asleep.

Other reading classes bore me but you seem okay to be around.

I feel relaxed about reading because it makes me think in another world.

When I'm bored I read books and when I read them I could make like a movie in my head.

Until now I still don't like reading, I can say that I have only read one full chapter book in my whole life while others have completed several.

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