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CLOZE PROCEDURE for The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
An advocate of the cloze procedure to determine what learners already know about a topic? Class members listen to an excerpt from The Call of the Wild and then fill in the blanks on their cloze copy of the passage. Directions for...
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Cloze Instruction And Herringbone Technique
Students sort out important information and create a visual framework for reviewing in the future. They organize a large quantity of information thus helping with learning and remembering details, cause and effect, comparison and...
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How Do Adjectives Improve Writing?
Using adjectives to create vivid descriptions is the focus of exercises in this resource. A cloze reading activity asks class members to add missing adjectives to passages from Mark Teague's The Lost and Found. They then read Teague's...
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Understanding Cause and Effect
Identify the author's organizational pattern for expressing ideas. After reading an article on the California Gold Rush, middle schoolers determine the author's purpose for writing a passage of informational text. A full list of...
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No Path Without Pain
Students analyze the message of John Lennon's "Imagine." In this promoting peace lesson, students complete a cloze activity on the song and discuss its meaning. Students then write their own versions of "Imagine."
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Past and Present Tense
Young scholars make predictions about the coming up chapter in their book. Students are introduced to new vocabulary words and definition for this new chapter. Young scholars create a table where they can input the new vocabulary word,...
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Investigating Our Multicultural World
Students compare and contrast a perceived view of life in Australia with the reality. In groups, they identify examples of stereotypes and how they can lead to misconceptions about a group of people. In groups, they complete a...