Differentiated Cloze: Middle

• Differentiated cloze activities for Year 3 and Year 4.
• There are two activites for each topic that cater to different ability levels in the classroom.
• The fiction and non-fiction cloze activities encourage pupils to use a range of strategies to make sense of what they read, thus helping to develop their ability to read with fluency, accuracy, understanding and enjoyment.
• Teacher resource book with photocopiable activities to use time and time again.
• Answers are provided.

Differentiated Cloze is a photocopiable book that applies the effective and commonly used cloze techniques to assist in the development of reading and comprehension skills. The topics chosen for the cloze text contain a variety of fiction and non-fiction material. Two formats are used in presenting each topic to provide the pupils with different approaches to using the cloze technique and to gain maximum benefit from each lesson. On the first page of each topic the missing words are provided at the bottom of each page. The second page of each topic has different words missing from the text. The answers are not provided to encourage pupils to rely on context clues only. Teachers may treat each topic with the whole class, in small groups or individually. Both formats can be given to the children to complete, with a lengthy interval between each. Teachers may also take into account the ability level of each pupil; giving cloze set one to the pupils needing more guidance and cloze set two to the more able pupils. Answers for both formats are provided.