Language Arts

Ms. Traci Matturro

My role as a reading specialist is to conduct and oversee testing in all grades, assess students that are new to Luxmanor, work with teachers to ensure best practices in both writing and reading, and work with individual students. Overall, my job is to support students as they construct meaning in reading through training the classroom teachers to become "mini" reading specialists, working with the community and promoting reading and writing throughout the grades. This year I will be heading a reading committee that will sponsor some school wide programs/ activities.

Calling ALL ARTISTS!

The Newspaper club is sponsoring the first ever contest for an owl to be our logo for the newspaper. The contest is not open to members of the newspaper club as they will be the first round of judges. The final selection will be determined by a panel of Luxmanor staff members.

Contest Rules:

Contest is open to all students in grades K-5
One submission per student
Drawing must be done in black felt tip pen on a white 8 ½ x 11 piece of paper
Submissions must show school spirit
All entries are property of the Luxmanor Elementary Newspaper and will not be returned
Please include your name, grade and teacher on the back of your drawing
Winning drawing will be the logo on the newspaper will the possibility of being on spirit wear, yearbooks and other Luxmanor items
All entries are due November 6th to Ms. Matturro no later than 3:00 pm. Please put all submissions in her mailbox in the main office
The winner will be announcement on November 17th.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

Pizza Hut - Book It Program
In an effort to promote life-long readers, Luxmanor will be participating in the “Pizza Hut-Book It” reading incentive program. At the beginning of each month your child will bring home a recording sheet to keep track of your child’s reading progress. Each day that your child reads, or is read to, he/she will record the date on a star.

On the last day of the month, sign the star sheet and return it to your child’s teacher. A coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut will be given to any child who has completed all 15 stars.

Websites to check out:

Scholastic Activities builds literacy and is great for speakers of other languages

Rhyming This site is great for phonemic awareness (rhyming) to help promote reading skills

Sight Words This site is for building site word vocabulary in kindergarten and first grade.

Gamegoo - (first grade) Your child is given words and has to put them in order to make sense.

Below are Websites for Gr. 3-5 Vocabulary building

Word Jungle

Recognising Homophon

Audiostories Stories with audio; great for all ages.

Ms. Matturro would love to receive your email. If you have questions or concerns about our Reading/Language Arts program, grades K-5, please contact her at the following address:

Ms. Traci Matturro