English - How to Teach Comprehension Cloze

[ANobleNerd]

Compre Cloze is one of those things that need a lot of general background preparation to excel in.


This means that the child need to read avidly - and read a lot of different types of texts at that.

Of course, once the child have that rich input, Westmom’s methods or any other formalised methods can help kids puzzle out the cloze.

The cloze tests whether the kids can comprehend the passage using internal text cues, the text type and their understanding of what the passage is about. Again, this won’t be easy unless the child is exposed to a text rich environment, and reads widely.

[Yerdua]

Sorry, what’s the difference between vocabulary close and comprehension close? Thanks!

[janet88]

Yerdua:

Sorry, what's the difference between vocabulary close and comprehension close? Thanks!

Vocabulary Cloze is something like synonyms...choosing words (MCQ) closest in meaning to underlined words in passage.
For Comprehension cloze, the child is supposed to fill in the blank with a suitable word.

[Yerdua]

Thks Janet for the explaination!


Yes, it’s really very difficult to teach the compre cloze especially
when ds hve selected a word, he will just mentally block all other possible ones…

[janet88]

I went through some assessment books with cloze as well as past year papers...printed out them and classified under diff themes like 'history', 'animals' etc. But still it's difficult to score well This is a 15 mark section...really wonder how to get at least 8-9 correct out of 15. Comprehension OE is already a killer and I dare not put high hopes there.

[starlight1968sg]

I have a similar problem for my dd too; compre OE and compre cloze kill!

[janet88]

starlight1968sg:

I have a similar problem for my dd too; compre OE and compre cloze kill!

I am using Teachers' Circle Eng. The Compre passages can kill !!! My son complains each time I ask him to do the practice paper. Conquer Comprehension is quite tough, esp those in 'advanced' section but not tough enough to give my son the 'real' exam feel.

[Mum1113]

Any recommendation book just on this area use by parents here ? P4 onwards level…

[BeContented]

Mum1113:

Any recommendation book just on this area use by parents here ? P4 onwards level..

There are simply toooooooo many assessment books in the market until I all blur :frustrated:

Was clearing out my bookshelf and found my nicely-filed but unread LITTLE RED DOT (2010). Remembered reading somewhere that mentioned about having to read widely and that a lot of the passages are from newspapers. So I have decided to stop getting assessment books on compre cloze. :idea: WIll instead 'BLANKO' some of the words in my LRD articles and then make my kids do assessment and read news at the same time.
One stone 3 birds - clear cupboard, read news, do assessment. :boogie:

[Mum1113]

cwc, you have given a great idea here. For me will target ST articles. Will start busy with \"Blanko-ing\" and keeps child busy to improve this section. Cheerios !