Year 5 Holes setting description.

Enhance your English lessons with our comprehensive setting description resource tailored for Year 5 students in England. Specifically designed to complement your teaching of the adventure story “Holes” by Louis Sachar. There are 2 setting descriptions included: the first for Camp Green Lake, which is introduced at the start of the book; the second for Green Lake after chapter 23.

The package includes 2 model texts exemplifying a setting description, a differentiated success criteria presented in three levels to cater to varying abilities, and a ‘fix it’ activity sheet focusing on spelling, punctuation, and grammar appropriate for Year 5 learners.

Upon acquiring the resource, the following activities can be implemented:

1. Reading and Discussion: Initiate a class or group discussion about the features of a setting description using the provided model text. Encourage students to share their opinions on the strengths and weaknesses of the writing.
2. Reviewing Success Criteria: Present the differentiated success criteria to students and task them with assessing the model text accordingly. Students can use colour coding, underlining, or ticking off to indicate the inclusion of all necessary features.
3. Error Correction Exercise: Engage students in a correction activity focusing on identifying and rectifying spelling, punctuation, and verb tense errors in the text.
4. Writing Task: Encourage students to craft their own setting description inspired by the model text and self/peer assess their work using the provided success criteria.

The resource, conveniently formatted in Word, allows for easy adaptation to suit your teaching needs.

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Enhance your students’ writing skills and engage them in the world of journalism with our setting description resource for “Holes” by Louis Sachar.