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Pushing Up the Sky
Unit 3 Week 2 Reading Street Third Grade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| narrator | a person who is telling a story |
| antlers | bony, branching growths on the head of the male deer, elk, or moose |
| imagined | made a picture of idea of something in your mind |
| languages | human speech, spoken or written, of different groups or countries |
| overhead | over the head; on high; above |
| poked | pushed with force |
| abundant | more than enough; very plentiful |
| scarce | hard to find; not enough of |
| elder | older person in a community |
| existence | to be alive |
| shrivel | too much sun, not enough water makes a plant not grow |
| scorch | to burn something slightly |
| irritable | annoyed, unhappy |
| pierce | to make a hole in it with something |
| torrent | powerful rush of water; a heavy downpour |
| fertile | land that is good for growing |
| prefix | word parts at the beginning of a base word that changes the meaning |
| unhappy | not happy |
| recall | to remember |
| disappear | is not there |
| unload | not load |
| mistake | error |
| misspell | to spell wrong |
| dislike | to not like |
| replace | to get another |
| mislead | to lead faslely |
| disagree | to not agree with |
| rewrite | to write again |
| unroll | to spread out |
| unknown | not known |
| dishonest | not honest or truthful |
| react | to respond |
| unfortunate | having bad luck |
| discourage | to not encourage |
| recycle | to use something again or for another purpose |
| mispronounce | to say incorrectly |
| character | a person or animal in a story |
| setting | where and when a story takes place |
| plot | includes the important events that happen at the beginning, middle, and end of a story |
| syllables | how words are divided |
| main verb | shows action in a sentence |
| helping verb | shows the time of action |
| compare | to show how two things are alike |
| contrast | to show how two things are different |
| un- | not |
| re- | again |
| mis- | bad, wrong |
| dis- | opposite of |
| am, is, are | present tense of a helping verb |
| was, were, had, have, has | past tense of a helping verb |
| will | future tense of a helping verb |