Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac

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Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac Genre: Play Uses a cast of characters.

Words to know Antlers Imagined Narrator Overhead Poked Languages

More Words to Know Bumped – hit yourself against something hard Randomly – in no particular order

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

Let’s listen to our story!

Vocabulary A B C’s Let’s put our words in ABC order! Imagined Languages Antlers Narrator Overhead Poked Antlers Imagined Languages Narrator Overhead Poked

Spelling Words This week, our spelling words begin with a prefix. A prefix is added to the beginning of a word.

unhappy

unhappy

recall

recall

disappear

disappear

unload

unload

mistake

mistake