Pushing Up the Sky
By: Joseph Bruchac
Genre: Play
Uses a cast of characters.
Words to know
Antlers
Imagined
Narrator
Overhead
Poked
Languages
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!
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
Let’s listen to our
story!
Vocabulary A B C’s
Let’s put our words in ABC order!
Imagined
Languages
Antlers
Narrator
Overhead
Poked
Antlers
Imagined
Languages
Narrator
Overhead
Poked
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