Dear Brian's parents,

Brian had another strong English language lesson today. We focused on Brian's articulation and enunciation skills while reading and when he slows his pace of reading, his pronunciation significantly improves. Also, his punctuation intonation significantly improves as well. Keep up your good carefully reading, Brian. You are doing much better! 

For today's lesson, we covered Lesson 1 - Task 1 - U1L1 - In Class - Friends and Family.  

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, intonation, articulation, enunciation, decoding, text features, and comprehension

4) Genre: Fantasy

5) Mind Map / Idea Web: 'How Do Me and My Friends Depend on Each Other'

6) Inflectional Endings: '-ing', '-ed', '-s', '-es'

7) Root Words

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For HOMEWORK, can Brian please complete the following:

Lesson 1 - Task 2 - U1L1 - Homework - Phonics/Spelling

Thank you.

***I would encourage Brian complete his homework assignments for better success with his knowledge acquisition of lesson curriculum scaffolding strategies.

Thank you once again.

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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