Thursday, August 29th, 2024 

Dear Phoeby's parents,

Phoeby as usual was very focused and picked up the target language and ideas quickly. Well done!

WHAT WE COVERED IN TODAY'S CLASS

In today's lesson, we covered the following literacy concepts and strategies from the renowned comic series entitled "Dog Man, Second Novel, Chapter Three: Happy Birthday Chief":

1. Key conceptual foundation themes: identification, clues pre-reading and post-reading
2. Key / New vocabulary, collocations and idioms; making a mess, made a mess of (the cake); reporter; journalist; newsworthy; Big News
3. Reviewed key ideas of previous chapters: cohesiveness
4. Cohesive devices: connection with the previous chapter on The Secret Meeting and Penelope's Pets
5. Connections and comparisons: Text-to-self, Text-to-world
6. Predictions

HOMEWORK

For homework, if Phoeby has time please complete homework in Lesson 07 - Book Report.

Warm wishes, and all the best for the entire family.

Kind regards,

Teacher Philip