CLOZE Procedure Links

[Kruchma@aol.com]

Pam,
 
I am noting some links for you that explain the CLOZE procedure and also  
offer ways to create your own.
The first link shows you how to use this procedure with one passage  along 
with how to interpret the evaluation.  Use the results to inform your  teaching 
rather than to stand as a TEST.  That's how I would proceed.   See if any of 
these explanations work for you.  
 
_http://english.byu.edu/novelinks/reading%20strategies/Anthem/cloze%20general.
htm_ 
(http://english.byu.edu/novelinks/reading%20strategies/Anthem/cloze%20general.htm) 
 
_http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/onlineteach/instructionalstrategies/in
directinstruction/clozeprocedure.htm_ 
(http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/onlineteach/instructionalstrategies/indirectinstruction/clozeprocedure.htm) 
 
_http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/cloze/index.html_ 
(http://olc.spsd.sk.ca/DE/PD/instr/strats/cloze/index.html) 
 
_http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/Literacy/ImplementALiteracyProgram/HowToUseACl
ozeProcedureWithSil.htm_ 
(http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/Literacy/ImplementALiteracyProgram/HowToUseAClozeProcedureWithSil.htm) 
 
There are also several very good texts, and one I suggest is CLOZE  Procedure 
and the Teaching of Reading by James Rye, which you can get on  Amazon.com 
for under $5.00.  Many other literacy texts have chapters and  sections 
dedicated to this procedure such as Richard Vacca's Reading in the  Content Areas.  
There are several editions from the 80's on, and they  all include this 
strategy.  Some of your texts from college classes on  literacy may have info on this 
for you as well.
 
Good luck, and let me know how it goes.
 
Mary Anna
 
Mary Anna Kruch, Ph.D.
President-Elect,  Michigan Council of Teachers of English
K-12 Writing & Literacy  Consultant

kruchma@aol.com

P.O. Box 561
Williamston, MI  48895
517-655-1633
517-256-4045

"If education is to be  done expertly, it must be done by the teachers 
themselves who as experts use  their own knowledge and understandings to define in 
particular pedagogic  situations the problems that are worth solving and 
soluble....education cannot  be exercised mechanistically or according to prescribed 
programs and  algorithms." (p. 33)

Donna H. Kerr in The Ecology of School Renewal, John I. Goodlad, Ed. (1987)



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