Dear parents,

Your children are such a joy to teach. They all have a wonderful sense of humour, they are very intelligent, and they work hard. They all had another very strong English language lesson today.

For today's lesson, we reviewed your children's Anchor Chart binders (thank you very much to the parents who are printing out the Anchor Charts and keeping their children's binders up to date - this learning resource is being used every lesson and your children are significantly benefiting - at school and with me - from the very important literacy knowledge these binders contain. Thank you!), and we also covered Lesson 8 - Task 1 - U3L8 - Your Turn.

We focused on the following literacy concepts:

1) Key/New vocabulary - synonyms (words and phrases) and definitions

2) Reading strategies: context clues, key vocabulary, key details, and comprehension

3) Genre: Biography

4) Author's Point of View

5) Text Features: title, special (bold) print, picture (photograph), captions

6) Primary and Secondary Source

7) Latin and Greek Suffixes and Prefixes

8) Plurals

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please complete the following:

Lesson 8 - Task 2 - U3L8 - Homework - Literacy

Page: 131

Pages: 133-138

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful Chinese New Year celebration and I look forward to hearing all about your festivities when I see your children next Thursday.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Mr. Grande.