Musings on my adventures around the world and my ties back in Texas as well as some of the the ideas I have to adapt and create to keep those places close to home.

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Word Search

Looking through one of our booklets for the Lise Prep program (and English language program for students who don't have enough to go directly into grade 9) G and I came across the word cloze. Now we were thinking that it was some obscure Australian term having to do with the order of operations in math. Turns out that a cloze procedure is a "fill-in-the-blanks" activity where the learner uses clues from the context to supply words that have been deliberately removed from the text. (from LinguaLinks Library) You learn something new every day.

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