Context Clues AND Holes, by Louis Sachar

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

Stanley didn't know what he was talking about. "Teach you what, to rock climb?" Zero stared at him with XXXXXX eyes. "What?" said Stanley. He was hot, tired and sore.

• XXXXXX means to squirming movements or contorting of the body.

• XXXXXX means able to make a way through or into something

• XXXXXX means to go back or further away from a previous position

• XXXXXX means sentenced to a particular punishment

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

Stanley started to go, but Mr. Sir lay in the way. Stanley could see the muscles on his face jump and twitch. His body XXXXXX in agony.

• XXXXXX means sentenced to a particular punishment, especially death

• XXXXXX means go or move back or further away from a previous position

• XXXXXX means able to make a way through or into something

• XXXXXX means make continual twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

Mr. Sir moaned. "If you must know, " said the Warden. "I liked it better when you smoked." For a second, Mr. Sir's pain seemed to XXXXXX. He took several long, deep breaths.

• XXXXXX means able to make a way through or into something

• XXXXXX means sentenced to a particular punishment, especially death

• XXXXXX means go or move back or further away from a previous position

• XXXXXX make continual twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

It felt good to walk in the shade of the two oak trees. Stanley wondered if this was how a XXXXXX man felt on his way to the electric chair----appreciating all of the good things in life for the last time.

• XXXXXX means sentenced to a particular punishment, especially death

• XXXXXX means go or move back or further away from a previous position

• XXXXXX means make continual twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body

• XXXXXX means able to make a way through or into something

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

Stanley was thankful that there were no XXXXXX problems. X-Ray, Armpit, and Zero were black. He, Squid, and Zigzag were white. Magnet was Hispanic. On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color -- the color of dirt.

• XXXXXX means (of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing

• XXXXXX means connected with difference in race or ethnicity.

• XXXXXX means a course over which participants negotiate obstacles to be climbed, crawled under, crossed on suspended ropes, etc., as used for training soldiers.

• XXXXXX means poisonous

• XXXXXX means a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

Dear Mom and Dad,

Camp is hard, but challenging. We've been running XXXXXX, and have to swim long distances on the lake. Tomorrow we learn to rock climb.

• XXXXXX means connected with difference in race or ethnicity.

• XXXXXX means poisonous.

• XXXXXX means (of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing

• XXXXXX means a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.

• XXXXXX means a course over which participants negotiate obstacles to be climbed, crawled under, crossed on suspended ropes, etc., as used for training soldiers.

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

The Warden opened the bottles. "Rattlesnake venom." She finished painting her left hand and waved her wet fingernails for a few seconds them began painting her right hand. "It's only XXXXXX while it's wet."

• XXXXXX means connected with difference in race or ethnicity.

• XXXXXX means poisonous

• XXXXXX means (of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing

• XXXXXX means a course over which participants negotiate obstacles to be climbed, crawled under, crossed on suspended ropes, etc., as used for training soldiers.

• XXXXXX means a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

Stanley's great-grandfather had survived for seventeen days. When he was asked how he had lived so long, he said he found XXXXXX on God's thumb.

• XXXXXX means a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.

• XXXXXX means poisonous

• XXXXXX means a course over which participants negotiate obstacles to be climbed, crawled under, crossed on suspended ropes, etc., as used for training soldiers.

• XXXXXX means (of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing

• XXXXXX means connected with difference in race or ethnicity.

Read the passage, use clues in the text to help you determine the meaning of the missing (XXXXXX) word.

He took several long, deep breaths. then his head jerked violently, and he let out a XXXXXX scream, worse than the one before.

• XXXXXX means a course over which participants negotiate obstacles to be climbed, crawled under, crossed on suspended ropes, etc., as used for training soldiers.

• XXXXXX means a condition of being safe or sheltered from pursuit, danger, or trouble.

• XXXXXX means connected with difference in race or ethnicity.

• XXXXXX means (of a voice or sound) high-pitched and piercing

• XXXXXX means poisonous