Patrick Duffy

I'm a graphic designer turned teacher, this gives me the advantage of being able to create high tech resources such as this one. This resource is perfect for an observation, I know this because I used it for mine and aced it! Lesson will be Scooby Doo themed. First slides investigate children’s knowledge on questions, statements, commands or exclamations. Each slide will provide children with a moving image example of each type of sentence we are discussing today. Ask children to give an example

Three Presentations differentiated for 3 ability groups. Presentation slides; 1. What is a verb? (Recap and enforce) 2. Moving images; What is Superboy doing? - Flying What is the man doing? – Eating, watching or looking. What’s happening on the football pitch? How was that goal scored? Running/Ran, kicked and diving (goalkeeper) What is the crowd doing? Jumping, shouting and cheering 3. What is an adverb? – go back to previous slides and ask ‘Are these people just flying? Eating? Running?’ Coul

Extremely effective PowerPoint where each slide presents a word. The children will be asked to identify if it is a noun, verb, adjective or adverb. The sentences have been designed to trick children. For example, the word 'fish' is displayed. When tested most children say it is a noun, however PowerPoint will then display it in a sentence as a verb. Each slide also contains a funny moving image, these keep children engaged. When I did this lesson with my class it was wonderful to see the rea

Differentiated doubling and halving worksheets for year 3-4. 6 written questions per page with adequate space for children to work out their answer. Lower ability (LA) doubling numbers up to 48 - 6 questions. Medium ability (MA) doubling and halving even numbers up to 48 - 6 questions. Higher ability (HA) doubling and halving odd and even numbers (up to 4-digit) - 12 questions. Both .word (editable) and .pdf available for both. I made these for a composite Year 3 (P4) and Year 4 (P5) class, and