Year 6 Holes chapter (expected standard)

The following WAGOLL tells the story of what happened to ‘Barfbag’: the teenager who was a camper at Camp Green Lake before the arrival of Stanley Yelnats. In Louis Sachar’s ‘Holes’, we read that Barfbag was bitten by a rattle snake. This short chapter, writable within a week, adds the missing scene to the book.

The WAGOLL would be ideal for use with a Year 6 class whilst reading the text, and would be an ideal piece for moderation.

Also included is a word-bank, which includes key vocabulary as well as provides full example sentences for the children to incorporate into their writing.

The WAGOLL focuses on:

• dialogue to advance the action
• shifts in formality
• parenthesis
• semi colon to join clauses (often with a conjunctive adverb - ideal for the expected standard)
• split speech