Dear James' parents,

Today was a challenging lesson for James. He was distracted by something he was doing at his desk and it took a significant amount of time for him to complete activities we were working on.

Also, because of this distraction, James had a significant degree of difficulty focusing and understanding the challenging Grammar concept of Past, Present, and Future Verb Tenses.

I would like to ask you to please help James understand the importance of focus and engagement in his English language lessons, for language learning success. Today's lesson was unfortunately a lesson in which James was unable to effectively acquire important foundational language knowledge. Thank you.

For today's lesson, we reviewed James' homework as well as his Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 7 - Task 1 - U3L7 - In Class - Weather Affects Us.

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, definitions, and synonyms

3) Reading strategies: fluency, decoding, and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Mind Map / Idea Web: Types of Weather

6) Verb Tenses (very difficult for James)

***Dear parents: can you please print out James evaluated homework assignment (Lesson 6 - Task 2 - U3L6 - Homework - Grammar) which outlines my specific evaluation, corrections, and comments.

***This print out has valuable information regarding Verb Tenses which may assist James with his understanding as he refers to it in future (along with the Verb Tense in-class work he did, which can be found in his notebook).

Thank you very much.

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For HOMEWORK, can James please complete the following:

Lesson 7 - Task 2 - U3L7 - Homework - Phonics/Spelling

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.