Pushing Up the SkyBy: Joseph Bruchac

Day 1

Pushing Up the Sky

Author: Joseph BruchacIllustrator: Teresa FlavinGenre: PlayComprehension Skill: Author’s PurposeComprehension 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

AntlersImaginedNarratorOverheadPokedLanguages

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-, dis- Unknown- not known Mistake-the wrong answerRecall-to call againDisagree- 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.

Great Job!