A resource teacher describes her approach to helping prepare reading disabled students to use commercial preprimer, primer, and first grade materials through specially designed cloze sentences interspersed with questions. (CL)

Deletion exercises, in which students are asked to supply words removed from texts, can be motivating for learning disabled students. The most common categories of information items that can be deleted include narrative, grammatical, conceptual, and logical elements. (CL)

Contends that the cloze procedure is an effective technique for use in teaching specific reading skills as well as a test of rate and comprehension. (FL)

Describes the use of a modified maze approach to teach why some words are more appropriate than others in a poem. (MKM)

Warns that college reading instructors must be aware that standardized tests do not measure the types of skills taught in reading classes. Argues that reading instructors need to develop an awareness of what the scores on standardized reading tests do and do not tell them. (RAE)

Reviews the literature and research on readability. Examines early formulas that relied on sentence length and difficulty of vocabulary, the subsequent use of cloze procedure to measure text readability, and other factors now recognized as influences on the comprehensibility of a text. Concludes that readability formulas have not served education…

Describes four teaching techniques which help poor readers experience decoding automatically. (MKM)

Offers a teaching technique that modifies the cloze procedure into letter-cloze independent activities designed to aid children in learning difficult sight words. (FL)

Discusses literature readability in foreign language classrooms. Gives results of study stressing use of predictive statistical device to determine difficulty students will encounter when reading specific literary texts. Suggests linguistic complexity of a text affects accessibility, comprehensibility, and enjoyability, and this should be looked…

Suggests three uses of the cloze procedure in content area reading to emphasize particular features such as content, structure, or concept. Provides illustrations of each type of study guide. (TJ)

Cloze testing and language performance is discussed as are two techniques for awarding partial credit: the quick performance measurement and feedback technique and the three-stage scoring hierarchy for partial credit. A figure and tables are included. (EJS)

Offered in this paper are guidelines and procedures to follow for introducing a newspaper-in-education program in the schools. Included are outlines and activities for idea presentation and staff development, suggestions for use of the newspaper in a scavenger hunt, and newspaper workshop ideas. Also included are activity sheets for use in…

Though adult students have rich and varied backgrounds which enhance their reading, too often teaching methods have focused on the print on the page rather than the ideas presented. There is a range of strategies for teaching reading comprehension which is applicable to any material. (JOW)

Contends that the use of the cloze procedure, frequently with modifications, can provide reading teachers with an interesting and instructionally sound approach for supplementing the basic reading program. Suggests that cloze techniques can be used both for teaching students how to read more competently and for evaluating their reading…

Reviews research and informal experimentation on the use of the cloze procedure as an instructional tool to teach use of context. (MKM)