An Email to Mrs. Henderson About a Missing Book
Subject: Missing Library Book (The Mystery of Falcon Peak) - Leo Martinez, Room 204
To: library@oakcreekelementary.edu
From: leo.martinez@oakcreekstudent.org
Dear Mrs. Henderson,
I hope your week is going well. My name is Leo Martinez, and I am a fourth grader in Ms. Clark’s class in Room 204. Our class visits the school library every Tuesday morning, and I usually check out two books at a time. I am writing this email because I have run into a problem with one of my current library books, and I want to be honest about what happened.
Last Tuesday, I borrowed The Mystery of Falcon Peak by J. R. Sterling. The barcode number on the back of the cover is 40882. The due date stamped on the slip is this Friday, October 18. I was really enjoying the story and only had two chapters left, but yesterday afternoon I realized that the book was not inside my backpack when I sat down to finish my reading homework.
- barcode:
- A series of printed lines and numbers on an item that a scanner reads to track information.
- independent:
- Done alone without help or direction from others.
- thorough:
- Complete, careful, and paying attention to every detail.
- inspected:
- Looked at closely and carefully to check condition or find something.
- replacement:
- Something that takes the place of an item that is lost, broken, or gone.
- volunteer:
- To offer to do a helpful job or task willingly without being forced or paid.
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“An Email to Mrs. Henderson About a Missing Book” is a letter / email reading passage about student email about a missing library book, written for 4th Grade. It takes about 4 minutes to read (603 words) and comes with an interactive quiz and a printable worksheet with comprehension questions and an answer key.