Dear parents,

It has been a true joy teaching your children during this Summer Storytelling session! They all enjoyed the vibrant reading environment for storytelling, script reading, and in-character voice. Their comprehension skills are quite successful and well-developed overall. Your children should be proud. They did great!

For today's lesson (Lesson 7 - Task 1 - Day 7 - The Mystery at Coyote Cabin), we covered the following literary concepts:

1) Key Vocabulary

2) Script Reading and In-character Voice: Narrator, Holly, Hannah, Matt, Gwen, and Greg

3) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

4) Poetry

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete:

Lesson 7 - Task 2 - Day 7 - Homework

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful remainder of the Summer holiday to you all and may you enjoy an exciting start to the school year.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's Storytelling lesson (Lesson 6 - Task 1 - Day 6 - Come! Sit! Stay!), we covered the following literacy concepts:

1) Key Vocabulary & Definitions

2) Pre-reading Strategies: Predictions & Connections

3) In-Character Voice

4) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following lesson:

Lesson 6 - Task 2 - Homework:

Homework - Write about your favourite pet.

Today we read a story about dogs at a dog school. What is your favourite pet? Why do you like this pet? What does your favourite pet need to survive.

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Have a wonderful evening to you all.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's Storytelling lesson (Lesson 5 - Task 1 - Day 5 - Why I Wear It), your children worked on the following literacy concepts: 

1) Key Vocabulary & Definitions

2) Script Reading - Multiple Characters / Multiple Distinct Voices

3) Comprehension Questions

4) Retell Writing for Story Illustrations

5) Story Animal Videos for Authentic Learning

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 5 - Day 5 - Task 2 - Homework

Thank you.

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Have a very good evening to you all and enjoy your weekend.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's lesson [Lesson 4, Day 4 - Home Sweet Desert Home - Task 1 & Task 3 (Slides)]

We covered the following literary concepts:

1) Key Vocabulary

2) Choral Reading

3) Genre: Play

4) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

5) Desert Animals: Draw & Describe

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Lesson 4, Day 4 - Task 2 - Homework

Today in class we talked about animals that live in the desert. Write a short story about an animal that lives in the desert. If you need an idea for an animal you can look at the lesson slides here in the portal (Lesson 19). You can draw a picture to go with your story if you would like.

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Have a wonderful evening to you all.

Very best regards,

Mr

Dear parents,

Today's lesson was very fun and engaging for your children. Today's nursey rhyme allowed for many opportunities of in-character voice and story plot discussion. Well done to all your children.

For today's lesson (Lesson 3: Day 3 - 'Young King Cole'), we covered the following literary concepts:

1) Build Background Story

2) Key Vocabulary

3) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

4) In-charater Voice

5) Sentence Writing

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Today in class we talked about nursey rhymes.

Please have your children write out ONE nursery rhyme that they like and draw a picture for it.

Thank you.

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Have a very good evening and I look forward to our next Thursday's lesson.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

For today's Storytelling lesson (Lesson 2, Day 2 - 'How Hippos Came to Live in Water'), we worked on the following literary concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies

2) Key Vocabulary

3) Reading strategies for a Play

4) In-Character Voice

5) Reading strategies for a Poem

6) Type of Poem: Limerick

6) Reading Fluency & Comprehension

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following lesson:

Lesson 2: Homework

Think about your favourite folktale or fairytale. Fill in the information on the worksheet about your story.

Thank you.

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Have a very good evening to all your families and I look forward to our next Storytellig lesson together.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

Dear parents,

It was a fun first class for your children. They all did very well in their storytelling strategies, using effective in-character voices and proper intonations and inflections. Well done to them all!

For today's lesson (Lesson 1, Day 1 - Stuck in the Middle), we covered the following literary concepts:

1) Pronunciation

2) Intonation

3) Inflection

4) In-character voices

5) Expression

6) Key Vocabulary

7) Fluency

8) Comprehension

9) Plot Predictions

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Write a short story about your sibling(s) (and if you do not have siblings, make up a 'good' sibling that you would like to have).

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to you all and I look forward to our lesson next Thursday.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande

James did a great job in class today. He participated well and we looked for adjectives in sentences and practiced writing our own sentences about characters using adjectives.

Nice work!