Dear Tiffany's parents,

Tiffany did very well during today's English language lesson. We spent extensive and intensive time on reviewing her test-taking skills and strategies for Multiple-Choice and Written Responses for tests. She worked hard and developed stronger skills and strategies. Great work today, Tiffany!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Tiffany's weekly test homework and we also covered some of  Lesson 18 - Task 1 - In Class - Your On-Level Reading.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Pre-reading strategies: prediction, identification, text-to-self and text-to-world connections

2) Key/New vocabulary - Translations

3) Reading strategies: Articulation & Enunciation, Fluency, Decoding, and Comprehension

4) Genre: Informational Text

5) Test-taking skills and strategies: 

a) Key Vocabulary

b) Context Clues

c) Citing Text Evidence

d) Topic Sentence

e) Closing (Concluding) Sentence

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For HOMEWORK, can Tiffany please complete the following:

Lesson 18 - Task 2 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful holiday season and a Merry Christmas to the whole family. I look forward to seeing Tiffany in the New Year (Mon.Jan.02.2023)! 

My very best regards are with you all.

Mr. Grande.