Holes Novel Study Unit - Holes Comprehension Questions - Chapter Activities

This Holes Novel Study Unit contains 300+ pages of chapter questions and activities for Holes by Louis Sachar. A complete Holes Unit is included - graphic organizers, movie worksheet, comprehension questions, Holes characters activities, STEM Challenges, and fun final projects.

Save time lesson planning with these easy to implement NO PREP resources. The wide variety of activities focus on reading comprehension and encourage students to think critically and engage with text. They have been signed to hold students accountable for their reading while assessing comprehension through activities that are both challenging and fun. Detailed answer keys are also included.

✅While all of the resources included in this package can be successfully used as-is, they work great when placed into an Interactive Notebook.

★IMPORTANT NOTE: All of these activities were designed with busy teachers like you in mind. All interactive elements require simple cuts and are MESS FREE - saving you time and making it easy for students to complete independently!

✅All resources included in this package can easily be aligned to the common core standards.

✅Be sure to click on the preview above to see pictures and a full detailed description of exactly what is included in this resource package.

Highlights of this engaging novel study unit include:

⭐Interactive Notebook Information and Setup Tips - multiple pages of information with tips and tricks to help you have success with Interactive Notebooks in your classroom.

⭐Novel Study Title Page - Perfect for an Interactive Notebook cover or novel study cover.

⭐Detailed Comprehension Questions - Detailed chapter questions for each chapter of the novel are included.

⭐Comprehensive Answer Keys

⭐Holes Group Discussion Questions - 21 different group discussion question cards to go along with a Holes Novel Study are included. These are great to encourage class discussion, and make a great review or warm up activity.

⭐Reading Strategy Based Questions and Activities - these focus on making connections, visualizing, inferring, determining importance, analyzing, summarizing, evaluating, predicting, and questioning.

⭐Creative Graphic Organizers - multiple different graphic organizers are included - choose the ones that work best for your class! This makes differentiation easy!

⭐Vocabulary Lists - Vocabulary words for each chapter of the novel are included.

⭐Holes Vocabulary Word Lists and Definitions: A full vocabulary word list with answer keys are included.

⭐Vocabulary Foldable Activities - Foldable activities to go along with key vocabulary from the novel are included. Full student instructions to create the foldable activities are included. These make great interactive notebook additions!

⭐Holes Vocabulary Worksheets - A wide variety of different vocabulary worksheets are included - pick and choose the ones that work best for your learners.

⭐Holes Vocabulary Mazes - Three fun vocabulary mazes, with answer keys, are included to help students practice the vocabulary words.

⭐Fun Interactive Foldable Activities - multiple different foldable activities are included - choose the ones that work for your class. These are designed to be MESS FREE and require NO PREP - no small pieces to lose!

⭐Close Reading Resources and Annotation Guide - multiple pages of information on close reading, and tips and tricks for successful implementation in your classroom. Student annotation guide included!

⭐Create your own Action Figure Activity - Students use the included template to create and write about their own action figures to go along with characters in the story.

⭐Character Charts and Characterization Activities - Several different characterization graphic organizers and activities have been included - choose the ones that work best for your class.

⭐Reading Comprehension Strategy Poster Projects - these make great interactive notebook additions or bulletin board displays!

⭐Journal Writing Prompts - A full page of journal prompts are included. These are great for reflection, and also make great early finisher activities!

⭐Pre-Reading Activities - these ask students to access prior knowledge and help to get students excited about reading the story.

⭐Chapter Summary Pages - Students use the included templates to summarize chapters in the novel.

⭐Creative Writing Activities - A variety of different creative writing activities are included - choose the ones that work best for your students.

⭐Character Perspective Journals - Students write journals from the perspectives of different characters in the novel.

⭐ Paired Non-Fiction Reading Passages - four different non-fiction reading passages focusing on topics related to the novel are included. Two versions of each passage are included - with and without built in annotation activities.
Comprehension questions, answer keys, and fact gathering templates are also included!

Topics include:

✅Desert Reptiles: Champions of the Arid Landscape

✅Youth Detention Facilities: Navigating the Path of Reform

✅Curses: Fact or Fiction?

✅Exploring the World of Writer Louis Sachar

⭐Holes STEM Challenges: Full instructions for THREE fun STEM Challenges have been included to go along with the novel. Full instructions for each challenge are included, with suggested materials and full color photo inspiration cards.

⭐STEM Challenge Notebook: A complete STEM Challenge Notebook is included. This includes a fun foldable introduction to STEM activity, as well as student pages to brainstorm, plan, design, build, reflect, and more. This notebook can be used with ANY STEM CHALLENGE - great to use throughout the school year!

⭐Holes Chapter Summary Quizzes - 8 different chapter summary quizzes are included. These ask students to summarize what happened in specific chapters of the novel. A detailed answer key is included.

⭐Holes Comprehension Quizzes - 16 different chapter comprehension quizzes are included. These include multiple choice and true/false questions. A full answer key is included.

⭐Holes Final Test - A four page unit test is included, with event ordering, multiple choice, true or false, character matching, and short answer questions. A full answer key is also included.

⭐Holes Word Search - A fun Holes Word Search activity is included. This is a great activity for early finishers to work on while others are completing their tests.

⭐And More!

Your students will master a variety of skills during this unit, including:

•Making Predictions
•Connecting to Text
•Visualizing a Story
•Summarizing key events
•Pulling key details from text
•Providing text evidence to support their answers
•Formulating Questions
•Vocabulary Mastery
•Determining Importance
•Monitoring Comprehension
•Synthesizing
•Making inferences
•Comparing and Contrasting
•Character Development and Perspective
•Close Reading and Annotation Skills

•Prompted Writing

•And More!

What teachers like you are saying about Novel Studies by Creative Classroom Core:

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"This is a very comprehensive lit study. There are so many components to this and it hit many different skills. I really like the different formats for the questions such as whole page per chapter or 2 chapters on 1 page. This was exactly what I was looking for in a lit study. This author literally thought of EVERYTHING. Thank you!!

-Vanessa L

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"Thank you so much for putting together a wonderful novel study product! I love that it includes multi-level questions that prompted students to develop deeper and meaningful responses to their reading. I will definitely use this product again in the future!"

- AnnMarie L

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"This resource is very simple to pick up and use right away. It has many excellent activities to support reading the novel. I love the use of art incorporated into the reading responses. Students enjoy the element of choice in these activities. I also love that some of the sheets can be used with other books"

-Tara T

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"I loved using this to guide us as we read the book. Students paid attention to the book more and were making connections within the text. I love that there were so many activity options within the bundle."

-Hannah Glasscock

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