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Learning to Fly

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Book meta-data
  • Reading Box: Emerald (Levels 25-26)
  • Year: Three
  • Fiction/Nonfiction: Fiction
  • Theme/Topic: Character education, Interviews, Leisure and recreation, Overcoming obstacles, Physical science, Safety, The arts
  • Genre: Realistic fiction
  • Strategy/Skills: Using texts as models, Exploring writer's craft
  • Page Count: 16
  • Reading Level: 26
  • Item Code: 200181
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  • Curriculum Codes: ACELA1479, ACELT1594, ACELT1599, ACELT1600, ACELY1678, ACELY1679, ACELY1680, ACELA1489, ACELA1490, ACELT1602, ACELT1604, ACELT1605, ACELY1690, ACELY1691, ACELY1692, ACELA1504, ACELA1797, ACELA1512, ACELT1795, ACELY1701, ACELY1702, ACELY1703
Reader Description

Dallas has always wanted to be a trapeze artist like his mother but he changes his mind after a bad dream.

After you have completed the Reader

After dreaming that he falls from the trapeze, Dallas doesn't want to be a trapeze artist any more. Divide a piece of paper in half. Imagine you are Dallas. Record your feelings about the trapeze before the dreams. Then record your feelings after the dreams. Write a paragraph explaining how you feel about deciding not to use the trapeze any more.

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