Dear Michael's parents,

Michael had another very strong English language lesson today. His English language knowledge, in all four language categories (speaking, listening, reading, and writing), has improved so very much. Wonderful progress! I am very proud of Michael and his excellent learning abilities. I know you must be very proud of him as well. Thank you very much for all your own hard work with Michael - he could not be the amazing child and student that he is without your loving support and encouragement. Thank you once again.

For today's lesson, we reviewed Michael's homework as well as his Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 11 - Task 1 - U5L8 - In Class - Our Beautiful Tree.

We focused on the following literacy concepts and strategies:

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

2) Key/New vocabulary - translations, definitions, and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: context clues, fluency, decoding, text features, punctuation intonation/inflection, and comprehension

4) Genre: Fiction

5) Text Feature: table of contents (author, title, subtitles, chapters, pages, and sometimes illustrator), and illustrations

6) Homophones

7) Problem and Steps to a Solution

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For HOMEWORK, can Michael please complete the following:

Lesson 11 - Task 2 - U5L8 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing Michael next week.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.