This Reading Skills Holes Chapter 34 resource contains a range of questions about chapter 34 from Holes by Louis Sachar. Organised into content domains, this resource allows you to 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.