Dear Summer's parents,

Summer had an exceptional English language lesson today. He most certainly belongs in the Gifted program. I extend the curriculum consistently so as to challenge his critical thinking skills and he does such a great job in doing so. Keep up your excellent, hard work, Summer.

For today's lesson, we reviewed Summer's homework and reviewed his Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 5 - Task 1 - U1L4 - In Class - Rosa's Garden.

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 - definitions and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Realistic Fiction and Expository Text

5) Text Features: diagrams, labels, illustrations, photographs, and captions

6) Idioms

7) Problem and Solution strategies

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For HOMEWORK, can Summer please complete the following:

Lesson 5 - Task 2 - U1L4 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.