2. Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac Day 4

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

4. Let’s review the meanings of some common prefixes: Un- not Re- again Mis- bad or badly, wrong or wrongly Dis- not, or the opposite of

5. Mispronounce Misspell Disagree Dislike Unknown Unhappy

6. Phonics – Review Contractions can’t I’ll let’s I’m they’re We studied contractions. Look at the word can’t. What two words is this contraction made from?

7. Decode Longer Words shouldn’t what’ll don’t doesn’t oughtn’t couldn’t she’s mightn’t

8. Rewrite each sentence using a contraction! Abigail was not in the library. Pat could not have broken this glass. Shane did not know where the book was. Put the milk in the refrigerator where it will stay cold.

9. Pushing Up the Sky Grammar Day 4

10. Standardized Test Tip Sometimes one or more words come between a main verb and a helping verb. Example: Hummingbirds are always moving their wings. In this sentence, moving is the main verb, and are is the helping verb. The word always is not part of the verb.

11. Classwork/Homework page 47.

12. Great Job!