Holes by Louis Sachar: DARTs
Learners will enjoy these activities related to Holes. They can work together collaboratively to sort and connect events, so deepening understanding of the text and encouraging meaningful talk.
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The resources have lots of attractive images that will hold the learners’ attention.
The activities can be used to develop inference and comprehension skills. The resources develop understanding of the main character’s feelings and why the character feels the way he does. This helps to develop feelings vocabulary and how to structure a sentence when justifying an opinion. When answering true or false questions about the text, this aids understanding of key themes and events. The activity which asks the learners to match and link events from the past and present aids understanding of key themes and also develops use of the past and present tense.
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On the right hand side of this page are a number of documents that you can download for free. Please note that the Teaching Notes and Resources can be found in the pdf document (the first item on the list), whilst the PowerPoint document(s) include(s) presentation(s) which you can display on your interactive board in your classroom.
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© The Bell Educational Trust Limited. This resource is free to use for educational purposes.
This resource was originally developed by C. Hurley and has been adapted for The Bell Foundation’s teaching materials and resources. The resource was formally referenced as EAL Nexus.