Download this Holes Chapter 49 Reading Skills pack to get a great selection of questions and follow-up work to use in your next guided reading session! When reading through Louis Sachar's text with your class or reading group, dip into the first section of this resource. It contains an abundance of questions grouped by reading content domain. This makes it easy for you to focus on particular skills if you wish. All domains have questions, and all questions come with example answers on a separate sheet!

In the second section of this pack, you will find our written answer practice. Perfect as a piece of follow-up work, the questions here are designed to familiarise children with the style of SATs reading papers and help them to learn how to structure and write longer answers. Example answers are provided for this section of the resource as well.

• 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.