Pushing Up the Sky
by Joseph Bruchac
illustrated by Teresa Flavin
Genre: Drama
Question of the Week:
How do people explain things in nature?
Target Skills
Comprehension Skill
Literary elements: character, setting, and plot.
Comprehension Strategy is Inferring. Inferring helps good readers use facts and details from the author and what they already know to come up with their own ideas about the story. Your child should think about and connect what they might already know about the plot, characters or setting of the story.
Vocabulary Strategy - Unknown Words
Phonics - Prefixes, un-, re-, mis-, dis-, non-
Writing conventions is Main and Helping Verbs
Vocabulary:
antlers- bony, branching growths on the head of male deer, elk or moose
imagined- made a picture or idea of something in your head
languages- human speech, spoken or written, of different groups or countries
narrator- the person who tells a story
overhead- over the head; on high; above
poked- pushed with force against someone or something
by Joseph Bruchac
illustrated by Teresa Flavin
Genre: Drama
Question of the Week:
How do people explain things in nature?
Target Skills
Comprehension Skill
Literary elements: character, setting, and plot.
- The character is a person or animal in the story.
- The setting is where a story takes place.
- The plot is what happens at the beginning, middle and end of the story.
Comprehension Strategy is Inferring. Inferring helps good readers use facts and details from the author and what they already know to come up with their own ideas about the story. Your child should think about and connect what they might already know about the plot, characters or setting of the story.
Vocabulary Strategy - Unknown Words
Phonics - Prefixes, un-, re-, mis-, dis-, non-
Writing conventions is Main and Helping Verbs
Vocabulary:
antlers- bony, branching growths on the head of male deer, elk or moose
imagined- made a picture or idea of something in your head
languages- human speech, spoken or written, of different groups or countries
narrator- the person who tells a story
overhead- over the head; on high; above
poked- pushed with force against someone or something