Dear James' parents,

I must apologize for arriving 30 minutes late to today's lesson. I overslept my alarm (my mobile phone was on low volume by accident). Ms. Ling Song will be contacting you in order to arrange a teaching schedule for me to make up these 30 minutes, for James' future lessons. Thank you very much for your understanding.

With a shorten lesson, James still had a very good, engaged English language lesson today. We had time to review James' homework as well as his Anchor Chart binder (briefly). We also covered some of Lesson 9 - Task 1 - U3L9 - In Class - Let's Communicate.

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: fluency and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

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For HOMEWORK, can James please complete the following:

Lesson 9 - Task 2 - U3L9 - Homework - Phonics/Spelling

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I look forward to seeing James next Friday.

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.