Hello Literacy Campers,
I have a couple of questions.
1. When you make cloze/maze passages, how do you decide which words to leave out?
2. If you don't know the reading level of text you want to use with a student, how do you figure it out?
Thanks. It was great to see many of you last week at the 2 day follow-up. I hope there are more opportunities for us to get back together in the future.
Take care,
Lee
3 comments:
Hi Lee,
It was great seeing you and everyone else at MDE!
To use a cloze procedure, you can delete every 5th word. You leave the first and last sentences intact. I think you want the passage to be about 150 words in length. If you have done the IRI you can use those scores to estimate the reading level you want to test. Or, you can "guesstimate" the level. I have norms at school, and I will try and remember to find them for you. There is a software program called Cloze Pro that will delete the words for you. You could also just use a program like Word and manually delete the words.
Thank you Barb. This is very helpful.
Lee
I found my information on cloze procedures. Here is a procedure for doing it. (1) Select the passage. another reference I have said it should be about 250 words. (2) After leaving the first sentence as is, replace every fifth word with a a blank. (3) Student reads the passage and then guesses what is in each blank. (4) Score the work, 1 point for each correct answer. (5) Compare the percentage of correct word replacement with the scale 61% correct = independent, 41-60% correct = instuctional, below 40% frustration.
Dave and Karen have told us about the importance of reading easy text. I think this is another way of checking to make sure that the text is at an easy enough level. However, I do remember Karen saying that the lexiles that the STAR (used for Accelerated Reader) and SRI (Scholastic)are higher than a student's actual reading level. Both of those tests use a cloze procedure.
I think the use of this procedure is especially useful for aac users. with them, Karen said to have 3 choices. Besides the correct answer, 1 choice should be syntactically correct and the other choice should be visually correct.
Barb
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