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Independent Cloze Activities for Increasing Sight Vocabulary.
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Ferguson, Anne M. – Reading Horizons, 1982
Offers a teaching technique that modifies the cloze procedure into letter-cloze independent activities designed to aid children in learning difficult sight words. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Learning Activities, Primary Education, Reading Instruction
Inferential Aspects of the Cloze Task.
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McKenna, Michael C. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Explores the central assumption of the cloze procedure, which is that context can be used inferentially to predict deleted words. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education
Applications of Cloze Procedure to Reading Assessment in Special Circumstances of Literacy Development.
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Francis, Nobert – Reading Horizons, 1999
Describes part of an on-going investigation of second language reading development of elementary school children from a bilingual, indigenous, community where high levels of proficiency in both languages are common among all age groups. Applies modifications to the standard rational deletion cloze procedure to adapt assessment to the special…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Reading Improvement
Instructional Cloze: Confronting Some Common Concerns.
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Cecil, Nancy Lee – Reading Horizons, 1985
Examines two concerns teachers have expressed over the cloze procedure--that of student frustration and of the impulsive child who does not complete the exercise. (HOD)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Reading Comprehension, Reading Instruction
Cloze Encounters of a Different Kind.
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Carey, Robert F. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Describes the usefulness of a cloze test given after an initial oral reading of the same passage. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
Teaching Reading in Business Subjects
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DeYoung, Ron C. – Reading Horizons, 1973
Descriptors: Business Education, Cloze Procedure, Reading Difficulty, Reading Instruction
Instructional Cloze Procedures: Rationale, Framework, and Examples.
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Valmont, William J. – Reading Horizons, 1983
Proposes using the cloze procedure as an instructional technique as well as for testing. Offers cloze exercises designed to teach vocabulary, relationships, and personal involvement. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Diagnosis--A Part of Content Area Reading.
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Cheek, Martha C.; Cheek, Earl H. – Reading Horizons, 1979
Six informal diagnostic procedures are outlined to assist teachers in assessing how well their students may be able to read assigned readings. The procedures are observation, simplified reading inventory, cloze procedure, informal reading inventory, group reading inventory, and criterion-referenced tests. (MKM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Criterion Referenced Tests, Informal Reading Inventories
The Role and Function of Informal Reading Evaluation
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Cushenberry, Donald C. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Describes procedures for constructing and administering informal reading measures on the secondary level and discusses the proper analysis of the test results. (MAI)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Functional Reading, Informal Assessment, Informal Reading Inventories
Applying the Cloze Procedure to Children's Book Selections.
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Ferguson, Anne M. – Reading Horizons, 1980
Results of a study conducted to determine at what level sixth-grade children selected trade books indicated that most children selected fiction and very few children selected books at frustration level. (MKM)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Fiction
Monitoring Progress toward Independent Silent Reading.
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Franc, Lillian H.; Hildebrandt, Jeannette – Reading Horizons, 1984
Concludes, among other things, that fluent oral reading is an important step toward reading for meaning and independent silent reading and that silent reading should be encouraged from the beginning of reading instruction. (FL)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Grade 1
Classroom and the Cloze Procedure: Interaction in Imagery
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Meeks, Jane W.; Morgan, Raymond F. – Reading Horizons, 1978
Reports on research concerning cloze techniques; shows how a technique termed the "Interactive Cloze Procedure" was used to help eighth grade students study the use of imagery in a literary selection. (MAI)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education