A Resource Guide to use with Holes

The Holes Resource Guide contains vocabulary practice, comprehension quizzes, reading skill practice, paragraph writing unit, and a figurative language unit based on the book Holes by Louis Sachar.


++ Included with this book unit is the username and password to all the interactive quizzes for this book online.

This 148 page resource contains the following:

• Vocabulary
o Vocabulary including pronunciation, definitions, and sample sentences from the text
o Two Practice Pages Vocabulary Words
o Vocabulary Test

• Comprehension – Ten comprehension quizzes are included which includes:
o multiple choice questions which require students to recall details from the chapters
o multiple choice higher level thinking questions such as sequencing, main idea, plot development, summary, drawing conclusions, inference, predicting, theme, understanding vocabulary, interpreting literary devices, etc.
o Now with the Common Core Standards, I have also added constructive
response questions. Most of these questions have graphic organizers to help students plan a response. These questions also require students to verify answers with the text.

• Skill Practice
o Sequencing
o Character Maps
o Flashbacks and Foreshadowing
o Venn Diagrams

• Paragraph Unit
o Lesson 1 – Paragraph Structure
o Lesson 2 - Making an Outline
o Lesson 3 - Thesis Statements
o Lesson 4 - Topic Sentences
o Lesson 5 - Detail Sentences
o Lesson 6 - Sentence Order
o Lesson 7 - Staying on Topic
o Lesson 8 - Concluding Sentences

• English Lessons
o Rhyming Words
o Simile & Metaphors
o Alliteration & Personification
o Onomatopoeia, Hyperbole & Repetition

• Activities
o Nicknames
o The Dig
o Fossils
o Palindromes
o Food Activities (Spiced Peaches and Onion Dip)

Answer keys for each practice page is included.

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Included with this book unit is the username and password to all the interactive quizzes for this book online. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++