Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac Day 1

Pushing Up the Sky Author: Joseph Bruchac Illustrator: Teresa Flavin Genre: Play Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose Comprehension Strategy: Summarize

Author’s Purpose/Summarize What kind of writing do you do most often? Let’s make a list. Why do you write these things? When we talk about why we or someone else writes we call it the author’s purpose.

Words to know Antlers Imagined Narrator Overhead Poked Languages

Antlers Bony, branching growths on the head of a male deer, elk, or moose

Imagined Made a picture or idea of something in your mind

Languages Human speech, spoken or written

Narrator The person who tells a story

Overhead Over the head; on high; above

Poked Pushed with force against someone or something

Let’s Practice!

The on the moose were so big I couldn’t believe he could hold his head up!

Antlers

The beach was much more beautiful than she in her mind.

Imagined

There are many different spoken around the world.

Languages

The told the story about the king and the queen.

Narrator

The plane was so loud I couldn’t hear my friend talking.

Overhead

She my arm so hard that I had a bruise the next day.

Poked

Small Group Read your leveled readers.

Pushing Up the Sky Grammar Day 1

The stars were shining through the holes poked into the sky. . . . Main and Helping Verbs The stars were shining through the holes poked into the sky. . . . The word shining is the main verb. The verb were is a helping verb.

Pushing Up the Sky Word Study Day 1

Hocus Pocus! This week’s focus is… Prefixes un-, re-, mis-, dis- Unknown- not known Mistake-the wrong answer Recall-to call again Disagree- not agree

Spelling - Prefixes Objective: Spell words with prefixes un-, re-, mis-, dis-. When the prefixes un-, re-, mis-, or dis- are added to words, no change is made to the base word: unhappy, recall, mistake, dislike. Adding certain prefixes to base words does not usually change the pronunciation of the base word.

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