This differentiated art, sketching or drawing task requires students to create an image of the Yellow Spotted Lizard from Louis Sachar’s novel Holes. There are three styles of lizard outline included, and five levels of differentiation:
Outline only
Outline with empty quote boxes
Outline with empty quote boxes and prompt arrows
Outline with pre-populated quote boxes
Quotation boxes only (no outline)
All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
Explore the quotations and themes of the character Eva Smith, from JB Priestley’s play An Inspector Calls. The line art image of Eva Smith is peppered with quotations, acting as a graphic organiser as well as a fun visual activity.
Choose a colour for each theme on the checklist at the bottom of the sheet, and shade the sections to link the quotations and the themes. Not only does this help understanding and revision, but you get a piece of art at the end!
This resource is provided in US letter, UK A4 and large A3 size documents.
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This differentiated art, sketching or drawing task requires students to create a reptile species of their own after reading about the Yellow Spotted Lizard from Louis Sachar’s novel Holes.
There are three styles of worksheet included, and a prompt or ideas handout to help you to differentiate the task for your students.
All versions come in both US letter and UK A4 document size.
This graphic novel reflection task can be used with any part of any graphic novel! No prep required - just print and go. After reading, give your students either an A3 one-pager or a back-to-back smaller version of the sheet. This resource acts as a graphic organizer to explore and reflect on the pages that have just been read, whether that’s one page or one hundred!
There are four A3 version and four letter-size double-sided version, making this resource 12-pages for you to select from as necessary. All sheets prompt your students to think closely about…
The characters
The way the images and frames are used
Personal reactions to the content
Questions raised
Predictions for the upcoming pages (or post-novel if you finish the text)
Evaluation of the final three frames of the day’s reading
Drawing of a frame in a different style of the student’s choice
This bundle of activities for use alongside study of the novel Holes currently includes 10 tasks.
I am teaching this novel to my students at the time of writing, and will add resources to the bundle as I create, use, and improve them with my classes. Buy this novel companion bundle now, and benefit when I add new resources!
Looking to engage students with an interest in gaming? This differentiated resource allows your gamer students to design or describe a live stream similar to those seen on Twitch, YouTube, and TikTok and Facebook. Bring their world and your world together with this alternative writing task!
One version of this task allows students to design or draw their ideas, and two versions offer prompts for written descriptions on a computer screen style graphic organiser.
All three versions of the sheet are provided in both US letter and UK A4 size document.
Four activities and a booklet containing the short story of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Explore the symbolism of color in a pre-reading activity
Introduce the vocabulary of the text
Recreate the wallpaper with traditional art materials, or use the Easel version for students to add their digital art
Study the characters through hexagon diagrams (large and small provided)
Great for Halloween!
Here are all of my resources that are specifically created for using alongside any fiction text. Adapt the tasks to your needs, or mix and match for your classes.
Great for KS3 and KS4!