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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.
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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
The on the moose were so big I couldn’t believe he could hold his head up!
The beach was much more beautiful than she in her mind.
There are many different spoken around the world.
The plane was so loud I couldn’t hear my friend talking.
Small Group • Read your leveled readers.
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.
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
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.