Modern Fantasy/Science Fiction
Free Fall is a picture book with no words that follows the dream of a young boy. In the pictures of the dream, the boy falls asleep and fades into a fantasy world. The boy’s dream then takes him through various landscapes, adventures along with meeting new characters from various time periods. Finally he wakes up in excitement to see all of the objects from his dream scattered throughout his room.
I would use this book in my classroom during an activity that has students create text to explain what happened in the book. I would show the book to the students, spending lots of time showing each illustration. Students would then be asked to write one or two paragraphs explaining what happened in the story. This activity helps students develop literacy through visualizing and writing their own meanings rather than just reading text.
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