Libby Baker Literacy, Canberra, ACT Videos

A National Science Week Speedy Grammar Lesson🔬🏃‍♂️ Perfectly fitting with the theme of Science Week this year, Naturopolis by @debdoeswords and @ingrid.b.art shows how nature is adapting to its environment. This speedy grammar lesson focuses on the visual grammar of shot distance and how it affects the relationship with the reader. The detailed artworks of @ingrid.b.art in this book lend themselves to this lesson. To celebrate National Science Week, I'm sharing the lesson plan for this lesson and a PowerPoint to help you teach it for FREE! Comment below and I will PM you the link. P.s. Don't fret if Science Week has passed and you still want the lesson, it will still be on my website for a small price. #nationalscienceweek #scienceweek #iteach #iteachgrammar #visualgrammar #shotdistance #grammarlesson #freelessonplan #naturopolis #picturebook @storytorchpress

👋Starting a new text type? Start here! The register makes every text unique. it's what makes a picturebook different from a film. So, it makes sense to unpack the three elements of the register of a text every time we teach our students about a new text-type. Every text, every year group, everytime. 👍Follow me for more about the register, field, tenor and mode. . . . #aussieteachers #iteach #iteachwriting #australiancurriculum #iteachgrammar

Day 3 wrap up. A short one because I didn't get to stay for long before I had to literally "take off". Thanks so much for all the organisers of the AATE ALEA National Conference ALEA - Australian Literacy Educators' Association for creating a great confrence and to Australian Literacy Educators' Association ALEA ACT Local Council for making it possible for me to be there. I loved meeting so many inspiring leaders and educators this year and I'm sad I didn't get more selfies with all my new besties! Bring on Hobart in 2025! 🎉

Day 2 of the @aatealeaconf in Adelaide! I was so lucky to be in many inspiring sessions. I couldn't take enough notes. I felt honoured to be able to run a workshop with some amazing literacy educators and then dance the night away at the conference dinner 💃

Day 1 of the AATE / ALEA 2024 National Conference was jam packed and amazing! Looking forward to tomorrow!

Speedy Grammar lesson for NSS 24 🎉 See the comment below for a link to a free lesson plan based on this speedy grammar lesson. Bowerbird Blues by @auraparker and @scholastic is a beautiful book about collections and connections 💙 If you have read Bowerbird Blues already you know that using it to teach Relational Processes (words that relate two parts of the clause) couldn't be anymore perfect 👌 #nss2024 #bowerbirdblues #scholastic #nss #kidlit #aussieteacher #teacherresources #grammarlesson #lessonplans #picturebooklessons

TLPLC Conference in Canberra Day 2 Wrap! I did forget to capture a bunch of things such as the amazing organizers, the brilliant food (cake and cheese at lunch 👌) making more TL friends, and leaving with more books than I got there with. If you are a TL this is such a good conference to be at! Can't wait for the next one! #tlplcconference2024 #tlplc @tlplcnetwork #teacherlibrarian #aussieteacherlibrarians #canberrateachers

Day 1 of the Teacher Librarian PLC conference in Canberra was jam packed and so inspiring. I forgot to mention in the video all the other awesome TLs I connected with today. Such a collaborative knowledgeable bunch! #tlplcconference2024 #teachertraining #teacherlibrarian #canberrateachers

📣Good grammar teachers need good books! 📣 Here is your excuse to TREAT YO SELF and buy some picture books. The ones I'm loving for their ability to lend themselves to text and image inquiry, with beautiful language and image features are: 📚 Lost by @jessmcgeachin, published by @welbeckanz @welbeckkids 📚With a Little Sprinkle of Courage by @jackiecaseart, published by @boolarongpress 📚Footprint by Phil Cummings and @sallyhan_illustration, published by @allenandunwin . . . . #kidlit #grammarlesson #grammarteaching #australianpicturebooks #teacherresources #aussieteachers #iteach #iteachenglish #iteachwriting

Grammar goggles? Or morpheme microscopes? Whatever we call it, the fact remains, that as teachers of English we need to help our students discover the different levels of a text. Understanding a text at every level means investigating sentences, clauses, phrases, words and morphemes. Each of these parts of a text is unique to the purpose of the text. So how do we investigate them and teach them to our students? . Follow along and I will show you! . . . . #teachingtips #grammarteacher #functionalgrammar #onlinelearning #iteachtoo #australianteacher

Comment "link" to receive a free lesson plan on this speedy grammar lesson ✨ Did you know❓ Graduation is not just something we do at the end of a degree, it also describes the change of colours from muted to bolder tones. In this beautiful book by @artofbrentos graduation is used to represent time passing. 👩‍🏫 This visual grammar lesson is suitable for students from F-6 as they explore the grammar of images that develop a message. . . . . . #iteach #iteachenglish #visualgrammar #kidlit #australianpicturebooks #australianauthor #australianteacher #lessonplans #grammarlesson #speedygrammar #libbybakerliteracy #aussieteacher

Take your grammar teaching further!📝 Next Steps in Functional Grammar goes beyond the basics of teaching functional grammar and looks at language structures in greater detail. This package includes registration for 2x 2-hour courses; Description and Detail and Multimodal Texts. These courses teach functional grammar knowledge and teaching strategies for Foundation to Year 6...and beyond! 💻 Recorded and live on Zoom. 👩‍🏫Classroom resources for implementing strategies are provided. 📃Linked to the AC:English Version 9 ✔️Approved for 4 hours of TQI-accredited training. 📝 Linked to AITSL standards for teachers. A certificate of completion can be provided. Find out more with the link below or comment "link" and I'll PM you https://libbybakerliteracy.com/resources/next-steps-in-functional-grammar/

New week new books! Here is what is in shopping basket this week: 📚All You Can Be by Angela Casabene @angelacasabene and Michelle Conn Illustration @michelleconn_illustration published by Affirm Press @affirmpress 📚In My Garden by @kate.mayes and @tamsinainslie published byHarperCollins Children's Books Australia @harpercollinsaustralia 📚Ladybirds Do Not Go To Daycare by @alirutstein and @ninanill published by @brightlightpublishing Bright Light Publishing 📚The Knight With No Bottom by @levina_schrijft and @charlotte_bruijn by @hardiegrantkids Hardie Grant Books . . . . . . #kitlit #picturebooks #bookrecommendations #teacherlibrarian #picturebookaddict #teacher #iteach #teachersfollowteachers

Teaching writing? Guess what! You are teaching grammar! Want to improve the way you teach writing or your students' writing? Check out my Functional Grammar Online courses 🎉 Check my bio or comment (courses) here and I'll send you a link 👍 . . . #teachingtips #teachinggrammar #teachingwriting #primaryteacher #inquiryteaching #iteachwriting #teacherpd #onlinetraining #aussieteachersofinstagram

Happy Luna New Year and happy #YearOfTheDragon 🐉🧧🎊 This luna new year I'm reading: 🐉Our Family Dragon by @rebeccalim_writer and Cai Tse 🐉New Year Suprise by Christopher Cheng and Di Wu Both are excellent books that illuminate the traditions during Luna New Year. . . . #picturebooks #chinesenewyear2024 #LunarNewYear2024 #aussieteacher #teacherlibrarian #kidlit #australianpicturebooks

A Start of School Speedy Grammar Lesson! 🏃🏫 Starting School by @janiegodwin and @_annawalker_ perfectly shares the varied experiences of starting school AND it works so well for an investigation into the different "happenings" (processes/verb groups). Lesson Idea💡 1. Ask students the probe question "what is happening?" as you read each sentence. 2. Colour the happening/process green. 3. Explain that their are many ways of things "happening" and in this way we can move away from verbs being described only as "doing words". BONUS! You are halfway to identifying clauses/sentences with your class! . . . #teachersfollowteachers #grammarteacher #teachgrammar #iteachtoo #primaryteacher #australianteachers #teacher #teachersofinstagram #literacyteacher #iteachwriting #teachersdownunder #teacherlibrarian #picturebook #teacherblog #teacherblogger #startingschool #1stdayback #beginningteacher #kidlit

Do you know a beginning teacher? Show them some love and buy them this book! And buy yourself a copy too! because once you read Lila Greer, Teacher of The Year I bet you will love it as well! It is the sweetest story about overcoming fears and about the enormous impact of a good teacher. 💕 . . . . @andreabeatyauthor @dr.illustration #thequestioneers #kidlit #beginningteacher #picturebookstagram #picturebooklove #mentortexts #mentortextmonday #iteach

What was your primary school grammar experience? I was at the very end of the process of writing generation, just as functional grammar was peaking into classrooms, despite this, I remember only a handful of grammar lessons as a primary school student and they were all very rules-based and traditional. It wasn't common to consider grammar during normal classwork. I know every school is different (maybe more so in the 90s than now?) and my primary school curriculum was a world away from primary schools across the border in NSW. My primary school experience is partly the reason why I have found functional grammar so transformative. Functional grammar demonstrates that grammar is not a standalone subject. It happens during writing, reading and even spelling, it is woven into the fabric of literacy. ⭐What grammar teaching do you remember from your time in primary school? Feel like you need to up skill yourself in functional grammar? Check out my online courses! https://libbybakerliteracy.com/online-learning/ The information for this reel comes from Beyond the Grammar Wars: A Resource for Teachers and Students on Developing Language Knowledge in the English/literacy Classroom by Terry Locke For more on the history of writing/grammar in Australia see the article I have placed in my linktree https://linktr.ee/libbybakerliteracy

A new year and new books! I must admit all the books in my basket were inspired by my daughter's current interests...it must be school holidays! But goodness there are some good ones out there at the moment. 🌟Phonobet by Kathy Weeden - author and Kim Drane National Library of Australia 🌟Bowerbird Blues by Aura Parker Scholastic Australia 🌟Where Are All The Christmas Beetles? by Suzanne Houghton - Illustration CSIRO Publishing 🌟Gymnastic Fantatsic by Briony Stewart Hachette Children's Books ANZ

All my 2024 courses are up on my website! Check it out! libbybakerliteracy.com . . . . . . . . #teachersfollowteachers #grammarteacher #teachgrammar #iteachtoo #primaryteacher #australianteachers #teacher #teachersofinstagram #literacyteacher #teachersdownunder #teacherresources #teacherblog #teacherblogger #canberrateachers #teachertraining #onlinelearning #libbybakerliteracy