Tackling Compre Cloze

8 Strategies to put the pieces together

Have you ever?

LOOK AT THE CLUES!

HIGHLIGHT THE CLUES!

THEY WILL HELP YOU!

Why teach Strategies?

METACOGNITION

Allow pupils to think about their thinking and be aware of how their brain works.

First Sentence Clue

Two cars crashed just outside our school yesterday morning. I had the best birthday party ever. Accident, injured, blood, ambulance, fatal, responsibility, students

Two years ago, a medical examination at school revealed that I was short-sighted.
Many children drown every year because they do not know how to swim. Bob was in such a rush to get to work on Friday morning that he slammed his hand in the car door.

The Experience Clue

Example:
The baby is hungry. He wants his ____. Mr Lim fainted and was rushed to the ____. Mum came home late so she went to the supermarket and bought ____ dinners.

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The Comparison-AndContrast Clue

Example: As soon as I put my spectacles on, the usual blur that I had been accustomed to seeing around me was gone. I could see everything very _____.

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The Synonym Clue

Example: The Principal gave the Bravery Award to two _____ students who saved a child from drowning.

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Time Order Clue

Example:

1. Her follow-up novel was Inkheart (2003), which won her her first 2004 BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award. Inkheart was the second part of a trilogy which was continued with Inkspell (2005). It won Funke her ____________ BookSense Book of the Year Children's Literature award (2006).

Writers Development Clue

Must know the meaning 1st. Link to synthesis Egs: However In spite of Because

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Pronoun Referents Clue

Example: John took ____ toy from the cupboard. The girls saw _____ friends across the street.

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Grammar Clues

Example: Aaah! Theres an ___________ spider in my bedroom!

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2. Princess Smartypants did not want to ____________ a prince.

Helping Kids to Check

Ask -

3 Questions: Does it MAKE SENSE? Does it SOUND right? Does it look right? Structure and Parts of Speech

Sentence

4 Steps to prepare a text for Compre Cloze

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Leave all the words in the 1st line of the text to let the readers get well into the text. Leave the last sentence intact too. Delete certain words: Random (regular intervals) or Selective (categories of words : lexical or content words) Replace deleted word with an underlined blank space. Do not delete proper nouns