Holes Complete Unit of Work | Four Weeks | Year 5/6

A four week literacy unit of work based on the novel Holes by Louis Sachar for Years 5 & 6, with 20 complete lessons, including all plans, teaching presentations and resources.

This scheme of work for Upper Key Stage 2 contains the following:
• 20 daily lesson plans with differentiation
• 20 lesson presentations with over 200 slides in total
• 43 additional teaching resources with over 100 pages in total (model texts, worksheets, feature finds, answers, word banks, etc)

Some of the objectives covered in this unit of work:

★ Writing
• Setting description (with WAGOLL)
• Diary entry
• Summary
• Non-chronological report (with WAGOLL)
• Balanced argument
• Playscript (with WAGOLL)
• Formal letter (with WAGOLL)
• Dialogue (with WAGOLL)
• Character profile (with WAGOLL)
• Newspaper report (with WAGOLL)

★ Comprehension
• Asking questions
• Drawing inferences
• Making predictions
• Discussing words and phrases
• Summarising main ideas
• Discussing and evaluating language including figurative language
• Justifying views with evidence

★ Spoken Language
• Role play
• Discussions
• Debate
• Performance

★ Grammar & Punctuation
• Modal verbs
• Expanded noun phrases
• Colons
• Hyphens
• Relative clauses
• Adverbs of degree
• Perfect tense
• Conjunctive adverbials
• Subjunctive form
• Question tags
• Semi-colons
• Passive voice
• Embedded phrases and clauses

This unit is ready to teach - just a copy of the novel is required!

Although this unit is designed for UKS2, particularly Year 6, it could easily be adapted for KS3.

All resources and lesson plans come as editable Word documents and in PDF format. All lesson presentations come as editable PowerPoints and as PDF files.

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