Pushing Up the Sky
by Joseph Bruchac
Illustrated by Teresa Flavin
by Joseph Bruchac
Illustrated by Teresa Flavin
Question of the Week:
How do people explain things in nature?
How do people explain things in nature?
Genre of the Week:
Drama
Drama
This Week's Focus Comprehension Skill:
Literary Elements: Character, Setting, and Plot
A character is a person or animal in a story.
The setting is when and where a story takes place.
The plot of a story includes the important events that happen at the beginning, middle, and end.
Literary Elements: Character, Setting, and Plot
A character is a person or animal in a story.
The setting is when and where a story takes place.
The plot of a story includes the important events that happen at the beginning, middle, and end.
This Week's Focus Comprehension Strategy:
Inferring
This Week's Story 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
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
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