Pushing Up the Sky

1. Pushing Up the Sky by Joseph Buchac Genre: Play Vocabulary Strategy: Glossary Comprehension Skill: Author’s Purpose Comprehension Strategy: Summarize PowerPoint created by Michelle Harding – Fairhope Elementary

2. imagined languages overhead randomly Words to Know antlers poked narrator bumped

3. antlers bony, branching growths on the head of a male deer, elk, or moose a mule deer buck in Yosemite National Park, California a bull (male) elk a bull (male) moose in Denali National Park, Alaska

4. imagined made a picture or idea of something in your mind

5. languages human speech, spoken or written

6. narrator the person who tells a story

7. overhead over the head; on high; above Interstate 10 eastbound in Mobile, AL

8. poked pushed with force against someone or something

9. bumped hit yourself against something hard

10. randomly in no particular order

11. Is the -er in antler a suffix? gardener: someone who gardens dancer: someone who dances writer: someone who writes antler: someone who antles ??? NO!! It’s just the way the word is spelled!

12. narrator Someone who tells a story… narrative The story could be called a _______. A student will ______the story. He does the _______ for many plays. My sister has ______ our family skits before. I am _______ the next one, though! narrate narration narrated narrating

13. words and grammar people use to communicate: languages a system of hand movements used to communicate: sign language consisting of or related to language lingual able to speak and understand two languages: bilingual

14. In no particular order… random Winners will be drawn at random by computer. The computer randomly picks the winners.

15. You Rock!