1. Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac
Day 1

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

3. 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.

6. Words to know
Antlers
Imagined
Narrator
Overhead
Poked
Languages

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

8. Imagined
Made a picture or idea of something in your mind

9. Languages
Human speech, spoken or written

10. Narrator
The person who tells a story

11. Overhead
Over the head; on high; above

12. Poked
Pushed with force against someone or something

13. Let’s Practice!

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

15. Antlers

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

17. Imagined

18. There are many different
spoken around the world.

19. Languages

20. The told the story about the king and the queen.

21. Narrator

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

23. Overhead

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

25. Poked

26. Small Group
Read your leveled readers.

27. Pushing Up the Sky Grammar
Day 1

28. 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.

30. Pushing Up the Sky Word Study
Day 1

31. 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

32. 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.

33. Great Job!