Dear Marquis and Marquis' parents,

Marquis and I had a wonderful long discussion about many topics that he is interested in and he is interested in SO MANY things, my goodness! He is such an intelligent and inquisitive boy. He truly is a joy to teach.

For today's lesson, we reviewed Marquis' homework plus covered some of  Lesson 4 - Task 1 - U3L3 - In Class - Planting Hope.  

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: translation, definition, and synonym

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

4) Genre: Realistic Fiction

5) Mind Map/Idea Web Discussion: 'Community Projects'

6) Conversational Practice and Pronunciation

7) Punctuation for all forms of Titles

8) Instruction Comprehension

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please independently complete the following:

Lesson 3 - U3W1 - Jul 19 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Here is my proposed Lesson Plan for Fri.Jul.26th:

Lesson 5 - Task 1 - U3L4 - In Class - Brick by Brick

[HW - Lesson 5 - Task 2 - U3L4 - Homework - Grammar]

Thank you once again.

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Have a wonderful weekend to the whole family and I look forward to seeing Marquis next Friday. 

My very best regards are with you all.

Mr. Grande.