Using a cloze procedure

The cloze procedure was originally used as a means of testing reading comprehension. In recent years, however, the cloze procedure has also been used as an aid for language learning and reading instruction.

Activities using the cloze procedure can help learners develop reading and writing skills such as

• comprehension
• fluency
• sequencing, and
• spelling.

These modules will describe how the cloze procedure is used as an aid to teaching reading.

• Prepare the texts.
• Use a cloze procedure with oral reading.
• Use a cloze procedure with silent reading.
• Use a cloze procedure for reviewing spelling.

• Barr, Sadow and Blachowicz 1990
• Bormuth 1968
• Bormuth 1975
• Farr and Carey 1986
• Jongsma 1980
• Laubach Literacy Action 1994

• Task module: Using a cloze procedure
• In task module: Developing literacy skills, by Martha A. Lane (contributor), Delle P. Matthews (contributor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), Anne Klaassens (editor), and Trudy K. Stewart (editor, contributor)
• In task module: Teaching people to read and write, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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