Are you looking for a range of questions organised into content domains? This Reading Skills Holes Chapter 39 resource allows you to focus on one or more specific skills, whilst developing understanding of this popular text by Louis Sachar. Pupils can focus upon vocabulary, retrieval, summarising, making inferences and predictions, linking ideas, drawing

National Curriculum Objectives

- maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.

- understand what they read by exploring the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identifying key details that support the main ideas; and identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning.

- evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader