Dear Tiffany's parents,

Tiffany was once again a joy to teach today. She was fully engaged and motivated to learn throughout the lesson. Well done, Tiffany!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Tiffany's homework and we covered Lesson 4 - Task 1 - U3L3 - In Class - Planting Hope.

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 - translations, definitions, and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Realistic Fiction

5) Verb Tenses

6) Helping Verbs and Action Verbs

7) Quotation Marks, Underlining, and Italicization for Media Titles

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For HOMEWORK, can Tiffany please independently complete the following:

Lesson 3 - U3W1 - Apr 17 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear Tiffany's parents,

Tiffany had another strong English language lesson today. Her vocabulary knowledge and their context usage has significantly improved. She is progressing very well in all four components of the English language: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Keep up your great, hard work, Tiffany!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Tiffany's homework as well as her Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 2 - Task 1 - U3L2 - In Class - Not From Around Here.

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 - translations, definitions, and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Fantasy

5) Text Feature: illustrations, and table of contents (author, title, subtitles, chapters, pages, and sometimes illustrator)

6) Paragraph/Sentence/Context Clues

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For HOMEWORK, can Tiffany please complete the following:

Lesson 2 - Task 2 - U3L2 - Homework - Grammar

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

Dear Tiffany's parents,

Tiffany had another strong English language lesson today. She worked very hard and her translation skills are improving significantly. Her vocabulary knowledge has grown significantly as well. Keep up the great work, Tiffany!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Tiffany's homework as well as her Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 1 - Task 1 - U3L1 - In Class - That's the Spirit.

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 - translations, definitions, and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Fantasy

5) Subject-Verb Agreement

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For HOMEWORK, can Tiffany please complete the following:

Lesson 1 - Task 2 - U3L1 - Homework - Phonics/Spelling

Thank you.

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

Very best regards,

Mr. Grande.

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