Cloze – Comprehension with PictorIal and Context Clues – Ages 11+

High-interest topics

Cloze is a well known teaching strategy for developing language skills in schools. The author has used his extensive experience as a classroom teacher and principal to write this series of blackline masters which provides cloze exercises that are varied and interesting.

Features:

• two main types of cloze are covered: answer lists are given and children provide their own words
• reading strategies include context clues, syntactic and semantic skills, and word recognition
• high-interest topics to motivate students
• imaginative blackline master passages will help to expand vocabulary and promote written expression
• teachers notes and answers