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Peer reviewedThomas, Keith J. – Reading World, 1979
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)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Secondary Education, Study Skills
Peer reviewedPage, William D. – Reading World, 1977
Discusses a study which compares comprehending scores drawn from oral-reading performance with oral-reading cloze test scores. (JM)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
Peer reviewedGanier, Ann S. – Reading World, 1976
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Higher Education, Measurement Instruments, Oral Reading
Peer reviewedKaminsky, Sally – Reading World, 1979
Indicates some of the strengths and weaknesses of the cloze procedure as a way to help children learn to read, to determine comprehension, and to gain additional insights into how readers process language as they read. Suggests that the beginning reader is poorly judged by use of cloze. (TJ)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis
Peer reviewedThomas, Keith J. – Reading World, 1978
Suggests that the cloze procedure be used as an instructional strategy; includes a rationale for using cloze tasks in reading instruction, descriptions of various cloze activities, and guidelines for implementing cloze exercises in an instructional setting. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education, Phonics
Peer reviewedBean, Thomas W.; Brandt, Patti – Reading World, 1981
Concludes that the maze procedure tended to overestimate students' ability to cope with an unfamiliar text, while the cloze procedure appeared to be a reasonably accurate measure. (FL)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Higher Education, History Instruction
Peer reviewedPage, William D. – Reading World, 1979
Describes a study that assessed how correction behavior in the oral reading of 48 elementary school students related to comprehension, as measured by cloze performance. Indicates that new measures of reading comprehension are needed, as correction behavior acts as an indicator of comprehension. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Elementary Education, Miscue Analysis, Oral Reading
Peer reviewedStansell, John C. – Reading World, 1978
Provides the results of a case study that shows how instructionally-controlled reading strategies are refined and expanded into mature strategies; recommends techniques for helping students develop mature reading strategies. (TJ)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cloze Procedure, Elementary Secondary Education, Miscue Analysis
Peer reviewedJones, Margaret B.; Pikulski, John J. – Reading World, 1979
Presents a study in which subjects were tested by a cloze test to ascertain their instructional level in the content areas of social studies and science. Indicates that the cloze procedure is a helpful method of evaluating student reading levels. (TJ)
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Content Area Reading, Elementary Education, Informal Reading Inventories
Peer reviewedGeyer, James R.; Carey, Albert R. – Reading World, 1972
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cloze Procedure, Instructional Materials, Junior High School Students
Peer reviewedSmith, Lewis B. – Reading World, 1982
Reports on a study in which passages from children's literature were prepared using cloze and presented to college and elementary school students. Reveals that neither group of students did well on the task. Questions the desirability of using cloze for matching readers to creative writing. (FL)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cloze Procedure, College Students, Elementary Education
