Cloze Activitiy

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CLoze Activities

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What are cloze activites?

Cloze activites are any activity where a stundet has to fill in a blank space from a sentence or paragraph!

Some Uses of Cloze Activites:

1. Encourges use of context clues
2. Pratices key vocabulary words
3. Increases fluency
4. Practices Language Skills (such as past or present tense)
5. Knowldege Check or Form of Assessment

Examples of Cloze activites:

1. Textbook passeges
2. Finsh a song
3. Parts of speech
4. fun passeges

The Benefit for ELLS

Has students thinking critically and analytically

Helps with memorization

build knowdlge on grammer and writing skills

The Benefit for ELLS as a teacher

Helps see if texts are apporopratie to reading/language level

Understand students comprehension and background knowledge

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What would be the benefit of using cloze activites with any ELL students? Do you see teachers use these in pratocum? Would you use them? Is there more pros or cons of using this activity in the classroom?

Resource Page

- “5 Reasons to Use Cloze Reading.” Remedia Publications, 30 Mar. 2016, remediapublications.blogspot.com/2016/03/5-reasons-to-use-cloze-reading.html#:~:text=When%20students%20complete%20a%20cloze,improve%20and%20expand%20multiple%20skills. - https://teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com/2011/03/cloze-indispensahttps://busyteacher.org/25425-using-cloze-activities-in-the-esl-and-ell.htmlble-language-building.html -https://www.colorincolorado.org/glossary/cloze-passage#:~:text=Cloze%20exercises%20assess%20comprehension%20and,appropriate%20for%20a%20given%20student.