Pushing Up the Sky
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Question of the Week:  How do people explain things in nature?

Genre of the Week:  
Drama-A form of writing that has conversations between characters, and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.

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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.
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This Week's Focus Comprehension Strategy: 
Inferring ​-When you make an inference, you use clues provided within a text or picture, along with knowledge that you already have, to figure out information that has not been given to you. 

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