Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsCloze Technique

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and... counted as correct. If a student is able to complete approx- imately 45 to 50% of the omitted spaces correctly, the reading material is judged to be at the reader’s instruc- The cloze technique is a procedure that is used for both tional level. If 60% or more of the blanks have been filled the assessment and instruction of reading comprehension in correctly, the selection is probably at the reader’s inde- skills. Based on the psychological construct of closure, pendent reading level. If fewer than 45% of the blanks the technique was first developed by Taylor (1953), who are completed correctly, the material is at the reader’s believed that a person reading a narrative or expository frustration reading level. selection psychologically endeavors to complete a pattern In addition to being used as a diagnostic measure, the of thought and language that is left incomplete. With cloze technique can also be used to improve reading com- the cloze technique, such a language pattern is typ- prehension in an instructional setting. In this manner, the ically a reading passage from which words have been technique can be used as a prereading activity to deter- deleted. Typically, in a reading selection of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Encyclopedia of Special Education : A Reference for the Education of Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities and Other Exceptional IndividualsCloze Technique

Download PDF
1 page

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/encyclopedia-of-special-education-a-reference-for-the-education-of-Zyak0PCH15

References (0)

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
ISBN
9781118660584
DOI
10.1002/9781118660584.ese0507
Publisher site
See Chapter on Publisher Site

Abstract

counted as correct. If a student is able to complete approx- imately 45 to 50% of the omitted spaces correctly, the reading material is judged to be at the reader’s instruc- The cloze technique is a procedure that is used for both tional level. If 60% or more of the blanks have been filled the assessment and instruction of reading comprehension in correctly, the selection is probably at the reader’s inde- skills. Based on the psychological construct of closure, pendent reading level. If fewer than 45% of the blanks the technique was first developed by Taylor (1953), who are completed correctly, the material is at the reader’s believed that a person reading a narrative or expository frustration reading level. selection psychologically endeavors to complete a pattern In addition to being used as a diagnostic measure, the of thought and language that is left incomplete. With cloze technique can also be used to improve reading com- the cloze technique, such a language pattern is typ- prehension in an instructional setting. In this manner, the ically a reading passage from which words have been technique can be used as a prereading activity to deter- deleted. Typically, in a reading selection of

Published: Sep 27, 2013

There are no references for this article.