This Reading Skills Holes Chapter 40 resource contains a range of questions about chapter 40 from Holes by Louis Sachar. Organised into content domains, this resource allows a focus on one or more specific skills. Pupils will focus upon vocabulary, retrieval, summarising, making inferences and predictions, linking ideas, drawing comparisons and language. To save time and encourage self-assessment, we've also included the answers.

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.