Dear parents,

Your children had another strong English language lesson today. They were happy, engaged, and motivated to succeed in their learning. They are such a joy to teach.

For today's lesson, we reviewed their anchor charts and we also covered Lesson 17 - Task 1 - U6L7 - In Class - The Big Picture of Economics.  

We covered the following literacy concepts and strategies:

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

2) Key / New vocabulary: definitions and synonyms (online research/dictionary.com)

3) Reading strategies: fluency, decoding, context clues, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Text Features: illustrations, special print (bold, highlighted), graphics (bar graph), captions, titles, and subtitles

6) Proverbs and Adages

7) Main Idea and Key Details

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For HOMEWORK, can your children please independently complete the following:

Lesson 17 - Task 2 - U6L7 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Have a wonderful week and I look forward to seeing your children next Thursday. 

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

Mr. Grande