Dear Evan's parents,

It was very nice to meet Evan for the first time today. He is a joy to teach and he is clearly an intelligent, hard working student.

Every lesson, I will be focusing on the four components of language learning: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. I will be formally and informally, evaluating and assessing Evan's English language progress (diagnostically, formatively, and summatively), during his lessons AND with his homework.

It is very important for Evan to complete his homework each week and submit it to me for evaluation, more than 24 hours before each lesson.

Homework is very important for a once-a-week class: to reinforce the knowledge learned in class as well as to evaluate what a student knows (strengths) and does not know (next steps or Learning Gaps). Evan's homework is very important for my lesson planning to address Evan's Learning Gaps. Thank you.

For each lesson, Evan will need his notebook, a pencil, an eraser, and a ruler. His note-taking written work is to be neat and accurate in spelling, copying, and presentation.

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For today's lesson, we worked on:

Lesson 1, Task 2 (R&W)

We covered the following Literary concepts:

1) Reading Strategies

2) Key Vocabulary

3) Predictions

4) Theme

5) Genre: Folktale

6) Antonyms and Synonyms 

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For HOMEWORK, please have Evan complete and submit the following work (more than 24 hours before his next class):

Lesson 1, Task 1 (Spelling Practice):

Phonics Spelling Reproducibles-G3-6.pdf

Evan is only to do the following pages:     p.31-35

If Evan does not understand any activities with his homework, please just write: 'I don't understand this' or 'IDUT' and then I will work on this activity with him, in class. Thank you. 

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Evan did very well today, in all four language components. He is an excellent conversationalist and he is also very respectful and polite.

Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I look forward to our next lesson together.

My very best regards are with you all.

Mr. Grande.