Transcript Pushing Up the Sky By: Joseph Bruchac

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
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-, disUnknown- 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 disare 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.
Great Job!