I was not able to make it to the classroom Friday for tutoring, and because of that I was planning on writing next week during the week that we could make up blogs we missed. I don't have anything to say about my placement since I have not seen them in three weeks. However, I have been working at my new job in Buffalo and that is a Language to Literacy program... I could talk a little about that.
We have started our second phase, in which we started a new book and a new vocabulary list. Although, before we started reading our story we did a cloze task assignment as a group and the children loved it. We had a letter typed out for their parents that had a few blanks that were the cloze tasks. One of the sentences for example was "This week we learned a lot of ____", with the answer being "rules". The kids really seemed to enjoy this and it reminded them of the vocabulary and rules learned the previous week.
I feel as though children really enjoy cloze tasks because they not only have context clues to work from but it shows them how much they know!
I think that in my tutoring placement now cloze tasks would be a really helpful task for some of the children on the lower end of the class, especially since they are ESL and a lot of the english language does not come naturally to them!
What exactly is a cloze task? I am not very familiar with that vocabulary, so I'm a bit confused. Is it more of an activity just for vocabulary, or can it be adapted to anything?
ReplyDeleteThe clozes are awesome! That's what I do with my students in the classroom. This is when the students need to fill in the blanks of a sentence with the word that makes sense. It could definitely be adapted to anything else, pretty much. You can make your own for any level and any topic.
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