If your kids like motorcycles and dirt bikes, they'll enjoy reading about Mike and his daredevil tricks. After reviewing eight words in a word bank, they fill in the blanks throughout the short passage using context clues.

Concepts

cloze reading, beginning reading, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Bring to a unit about vehicles or sports
• Have kids write about their own favorite sports, and how they learned to improve
• Use the words in the word bank as vocabulary words for the week
• Include in a short reading assessment or homework packet

Classroom Considerations

• Some parts of the resource are in color, but printing in black-and-white shouldn't impede understanding

Pros

• Subject might be appealing to your more reluctant learners
• Prompts kids to examine the context of each sentence before adding the words

Cons

• There are some grammar mistakes in the passage, as well as some typos
• Does not address any higher-level skills