Dear parents,

It was very nice to see your children today, as always. They all worked hard and tried their very best to succeed in their learning, which makes teaching them a joy.

For today's lesson, we reviewed their Anchor Chart binders as well as covered Lesson 17 - Task 1 - U4L7 - In Class - Why Does the Moon Change Shape.  

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

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

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Text Features: pictures (photographs), diagrams, labels, special print (highlighted text, bold print), captions, and subtitles

6) Cause and Effect

7) Paragraph/Context Clues

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

Lesson 17 - Task 2 - U4L7 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.