Holes Medium Term writing unit: Fiction- Narrative devices, setting description and character descriptions, writing a letter Non-fiction- information text and a newspaper report This resource includes extensive breakdown of the lessons in each week with ideas for starters as well. This resource is based on Year 6 but could be easily adapted for Year 5!

Here is a twelve week medium term plan for reading lessons based on the book Holes by Louis Sachar. There is an even split of VIPERS style lessons which focus a specific reading skill each lesson.

I have broken down each segment of VIPERS for you and the children to understand what each reading skill means!