Dear Summer's parents,

It was very nice to see Summer today. He can be such a joy to teach and he is such a knowledgeable and intelligent student. Keep up your strong learning strategies, Summer. You're doing great!

For today's lesson, we reviewed Summer's homework and his anchor charts. We also covered Lesson 4 - Task 1 - U5L3 - In Class - New Beginnings.  

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: definitions and synonyms

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

4) Genre: Folktale - Tall Tale

5) Types of Words: homograph, homonym, homophone

6) Figurative Language: similes, metaphors, hyperbole, onomatopoeia

7) Phonetics: different syllable stresses to change the meaning of a word

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For HOMEWORK, can Summer please independently complete the following:

Lesson 3 - U5W1 - Apr 29 - Homework - Weekly Test

Thank you.

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

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

Mr. Grande