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Cloze Procedure Syllabus, Oralee E. Reiber

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Purpose: The purpose of this series of lessons was to provide material for explaining how to do cloze exercises.

Materials: The riddles, sentences, and easier passages were written for this series. The more difficult passages and story were taken from reading materials.

Procedure: The riddles were left intact. The sentences and shorter passages had no special deletion pattern. The more difficult passages had nouns deleted. The story had an every fifth word deletion pattern.