Dear Marquis' parents,

Marquis had an excellent English language lesson today. His conversational skills are significantly improving as well as his word choice selection while in conversation. He word choices are significantly improving as well. He even was able to successfully outline the adaption characteristics of specific Chinese animals. Marquis taught me a lot today! Well done, Marquis!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Marquis' homework as well as his Anchor Chart binder. We also covered Lesson 22 - Task 1 - U4L5 - In Class - Adapt to Challenges.  

We covered the following literacy concepts and strategies:

1) Pre-reading strategies: prediction, identification, text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world connections

2) Key / New vocabulary: translations, definitions, and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Expository Text

5) Mind Map / Idea Web: 'Adaptations'

6) Sentence / Context Clues

7) Text Features: Map and Compass Rose

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For HOMEWORK, can Marquis please independently complete the following:

Lesson 21 - U4W2 - Apr 24 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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Here is my proposed Lesson Plan for Mon.May.01st:

Lesson 23 - Task 1 - U4L6 - In Class - Life in a Tide Pool

[HW - Lesson 23 - Task 2 - U4L6 - Homework - Grammar]

Thank you once again.

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

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

Mr. Grande.