Dear Brian's parents,

It is always nice to see Brian.

Today we focused on Brian's reading skills, specifically his fluency and his decoding of challenging vocabulary.

I would recommend that Brian reads at a slower pace and to focus carefully on punctuation intonation and on how to sound out challenging vocabulary.

When he does this, his reading skills significantly improved. Thank you.

For today's lesson, we reviewed Brian's anchor charts and notebook. We also covered Lesson 5 - Task 1 - U1L4 - In Class - Happy New Year!.  

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: translations, definitions, and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Fiction

5) Root Words

6) Text Features: table of contents and pictures (illustrations and photographs)

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For HOMEWORK, can Brian 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 Brian next Wednesday. 

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

Mr. Grande