Dear Michael's parents,

Michael had such a great lesson today. He worked so hard, thinking carefully before he answered questions, used strong sentence structures in his answers, and understood strategies that would help him achieve higher success in his English language studies. Fantastic! Michael is such a smart boy and a real joy to teach. Keep up your amazing, hard work Michael - you're doing really super with your English language learning! Wow!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Michael's homework as well as his Anchor Chart binder. Plus we covered Lesson 22 - Task 1 - U4L5 - In Class - Around the World.

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 - Synonyms and Translations

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

4) Genre: Realistic Fiction

5) Visualizing strategies

6) Figurative Language: Similes

7) Compare and Contrast (Venn Diagram)

8) Punctuation - Proofreading

9) Reading Instructions Carefully

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For HOMEWORK, can Michael please independently complete the following:

Lesson 21 - U4W2 - Nov 29 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

My very best regards are with the whole family, as always.

Mr. Grande.