Pushing Up the SkyBy: Joseph Bruchac

Genre: PlayUses a cast of characters.

Words to know

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More Words to Know

Bumped – hit yourself against something hard

Randomly – in no particular order

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!

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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

Let’s listen to our story!

Vocabulary A B C’sLet’s put our words in ABC

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Spelling Words

This week, our spelling words begin with a prefix. A prefix is added to the

beginning of a word.

unhappy

unhappy

recall

recall

disappear

disappear

unload

unload

mistake

mistake