This informational book tells all about what a job would be like as an astronaut. The book includes real photographs from in space and aboard real space shuttles.
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I liked the book "If you were an...Astronaut," it had clear language, and was engaging its readers to answer and ask questions. The language was very clear because on page 14 the text says "The shuttle begins to orbit, or circle around." The text seemed very brief however, the definition of a more a difficult word for younger children was identified right in the sentence, making it easier to understand. The book engaged the readers by asking questions in the beginning of the book such as, "Will you help build a floating laboratory for scientists?" "What will you do so high above home?" These types of questions let the readers imagination wander into their own little world and think about what they would do if they were an astronaut. I believe engagement is the most important thing a book needs because it allows for differentiation. The big idea of this book was to inform its readers of the different things that astronauts have to do to go into space, some different training that must be complete, etc. It was very good and easy read and I was very interesting to find more things out about astronauts. ( )

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