In this Holes Chapter 45 Reading Skills pack, you will find an inherently-flexible and comprehensive selection of questions to make discussing this next chapter of Louis Sachar's book nice and simple! This resource works perfectly with a whole class or smaller groups.

The first section of this pack provides you with questions (and answers) to use as you read the text, arranged by reading content domain and covering all eight of them. This means you can easily choose to focus on one, two or all of them. The second section is a sheet of our written answer practice questions, which mimic the tasks found on SATs reading papers and help your children to gain the skills and experience they need to answer these sorts of questions with confidence. Answers are provided for this section too!

• English Year 5 & Year 6: Maintain positive attitudes to reading and understanding of what is read.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: 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.
• English Year 5 & Year 6: Evaluate how authors use language, including figurative language, considering the impact on the reader.