Holes by Louis Sachar is probably one of my new favorite books. I remembered the book from the movie but I enjoyed the book more. This is a great story about the Yelnats family and a long standing curse that had be set upon them. The main character of this story in Stanley who by fate gets sent to a youth detention camp that has the delinquents dig holes out in the desert. This is an intertwined story of how fate saves the Yelnats family through Stanley.
I think that this is a great book to have in the classroom. I think that this is a great book to use as a read-aloud in a 4th-5th grade classroom. I think that this book is engaging and can be used to teach multiple reading strategies to students. The book is not that long and the concepts are easy to connect. The story comes full circle by the end and would be a great book to discuss prediction and inferencing.
This book would also be great to use in a book club or as an independent reader book as well. I think that is enjoyable for both boys and girls and the movie could be used as a reward because it is appropriate for a school setting.
I just bought this book at the youth ranch so that I could read it. I havent seen the movie or read it but the 5th graders at Pioneer were really encouraging me to read it. So I think you hit the grade level right on!
ReplyDeleteThis was a story that we read in class when I was younger, and just about every one of us liked it. I plan on having it in my classroom. There are so many different things that you could do with this book.
ReplyDeleteThis book can also be used to motivate some students to read. I had a fifth grade reading buddy who "hated" to read but was captured by this book when we read it together. He felt so accomplished and proud of himself after we finished the whole book.
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