1st grade sheet is titled "Cloze [sic] the gap"

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Anonymous wrote:Come on, people. “Cloze” has been used for years in education. When you do cloze activities, you fill in words that make sense that are missing in sentences.
It was a play on words that was obviously missed by you all.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cloze-procedure-technique-and-definition.html

I've never heard of it and my youngest is currently in 2nd grade. So maybe it has been "used for years" but that certainly doesn't mean that every parent has heard the term. There's no need to be a dick about it.

But it's interesting to see how OP reacted, jumping to the conclusion that it was a misspelling. Parents jump to the same conclusions about the way they teach math now. All these parents, thinking they know better than trained teachers, challenging them at every turn, prattling on about Pearson, etc. Like parents are education experts or something. It's truly baffling.

Sorry, but after my kid's school sent home a flyer that stated "Calling all Dad's!" and receiving emails from her teacher with similar misspellings, I'm prone to think they are typos. Not impressed.

So, you think that the school coincidentally spelled a word that referred to the type of worksheet when trying spell a different word? That would be quite a coincidental typo.

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Agree with the former PP. First graders won't understand the pun and instead will think that the word "close" is spelled with a "z." I'm a teacher, too, FWIW.

Is that your empirical experience with first-graders and cloze worksheets? Or are you assuming?

If anything, I would be worried that first-graders would think that "cloze the gap" meant the same as "fill in the blank", not that you spell close with a z. The worksheet does not ask them to close anything.

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

[Anonymous]

meh. Did you see Donald Trump's medical records? The Park Avenue/Lenox Hill Hospital doctor released it to the media writing "To whom my concern" (i.e. To whom it may concern). Bad spelling/writing all around.

[Anonymous]

I'm not a teacher. I'm a parent. I'm just annoyed as FUCK at all these other parents who carry on like they know more than the teachers, second-guessing them at every turn. You should see the hysteria over Common Core math. All these ignorant parents upset and taking to social media to profess outrage over the fact that aren't teaching math the way they were taught, not realizing that in fact they didn't really learn anything about number sense.

The arrogance is palpable.

You have some serious problems. None of the other parents that I hang out with carry on about anything like that. We have other stuff to talk about and focus on. You are either overreacting, exaggerating the problem or hanging out with the wrong people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

"Cloze activity" in Google gets you what you need.

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Anonymous wrote:So wait, another huge communication error from MCPS? Who would have thought...

I am still figuring out why my 1st grader has to pull numbers from a basic addition problem and show 700 ways to do it. They wonder why parents think it is all nonsense. there are ZERO workbooks, textbooks, or communication from the teachers. So for me, this 2.0 sucks because I can't even explain to my 6yr old why she needs to do it this way. UGH!

There are a ton of adults in this country who have abysmal math skills. They did fine memorizing basic addition/multiplication, but as things build conceptually they begin to have difficulty. Making a child perform the same basic addition problem different ways ensures that they understand conceptually what the problem and the answer means. Your child will be better for it come time for algebra and calculus.

-Phsycicist whose parents were making her do this long before it was required

+1

--educated in a country that did this in the 70s

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The title is meant to be a play on words that parents should understand. Even before I became a teacher, I knew what a cloze activity was. Now there is Google so.....

Good for you, but I certainly didn't know what a cloze activity was. My spell checker doesn't know the word either because it keeps highlighting cloze as misspelled.

"Cloze activity" in Google gets you what you need.

The worksheet wasn't titled "Cloze Activity for -ING words." It was titled "Cloze the Gap". I'm not OP, but thought "WTH is this word and why are they using it for 6 year olds?"

I googled "Cloze the Gap" and THAT was where I learned about cloze activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm trying to figure out why one of my first grader's worksheets on sounds is titled "Cloze the Gap" (the exercise is to fill in blanks in the sentences with words that use the sound combination being taught, like "ch" or "ing." Everything else on the sheet is spelled correctly other than this heading.

Can teachers weigh in and tell me if this misspelling is some kind of intentional thing that a layperson wouldn't know about? I'm not trying to be a jerk, which is why I'm not asking the teacher, but it's really bugging me. There's a copyright on the bottom that says 2009, so this thing has been kicking around for a while. Usually when there's a typo on the children's worksheets I just shrug it off but this one is so ridiculous I'm hoping there's pedagogic intent behind it.

The worksheets were probably made by a lady named Cherry Carl, and she was just making a pun.

http://api.ning.com/files/zkGb0X42pMQC5IXyx9bpjZ2PgifIgEUrLVZot6DYaeQatgaocSrMwrsLvJuJPQDcovnVuQNDr4YFlVuXBgeKM8Ma8Wi6RJa0/ClozetheGap.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, people. “Cloze” has been used for years in education. When you do cloze activities, you fill in words that make sense that are missing in sentences.
It was a play on words that was obviously missed by you all.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cloze-procedure-technique-and-definition.html

I've never heard of it and my youngest is currently in 2nd grade. So maybe it has been "used for years" but that certainly doesn't mean that every parent has heard the term. There's no need to be a dick about it.

But it's interesting to see how OP reacted, jumping to the conclusion that it was a misspelling. Parents jump to the same conclusions about the way they teach math now. All these parents, thinking they know better than trained teachers, challenging them at every turn, prattling on about Pearson, etc. Like parents are education experts or something. It's truly baffling.

Look, every profession comes with some terms of art that are only used amongst those professionals. If you don't like your professionalism being questioned, don't spill the jargon on a first grade assignment. You need to distinguish between when you are teaching the students and when you are learning about teaching.

I'm not a teacher. I'm a parent. I'm just annoyed as FUCK at all these other parents who carry on like they know more than the teachers, second-guessing them at every turn. You should see the hysteria over Common Core math. All these ignorant parents upset and taking to social media to profess outrage over the fact that aren't teaching math the way they were taught, not realizing that in fact they didn't really learn anything about number sense.

The arrogance is palpable.

And your ignorance is palpable. Every 20 years or so educators introduce a new approach to math, but it always fails and they end up going back to the old way. Know why kids in mcps can't do math? There are several reasons, but one obvious one is that most schools make the classroom teacher quickly cycle through three to five groups of kids on different levels--so kids get ten minutes of rapid fire instruction and then go back to their seats to work independently or (play) with a group for the rest of the group. That doesn't happen in private school...where kids tend to succeed. And race and income play into it as well (because that impacts family and housing stability and access to resources in general). That's what the data shows.

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And your ignorance is palpable. Every 20 years or so educators introduce a new approach to math, but it always fails and they end up going back to the old way. Know why kids in mcps can't do math? There are several reasons, but one obvious one is that most schools make the classroom teacher quickly cycle through three to five groups of kids on different levels--so kids get ten minutes of rapid fire instruction and then go back to their seats to work independently or (play) with a group for the rest of the group. That doesn't happen in private school...where kids tend to succeed. And race and income play into it as well (because that impacts family and housing stability and access to resources in general). That's what the data shows.

That's actually not what the data show. Or what the facts show.

[Anonymous]

If a paren doesn't get what cloze is and that it is not a misspelling of close, why would a first grader understand that?

[Anonymous]

Cloze is not a misspelling. It's the name of the strategy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Come on, people. “Cloze” has been used for years in education. When you do cloze activities, you fill in words that make sense that are missing in sentences.
It was a play on words that was obviously missed by you all.

http://study.com/academy/lesson/cloze-procedure-technique-and-definition.html

I've never heard of it and my youngest is currently in 2nd grade. So maybe it has been "used for years" but that certainly doesn't mean that every parent has heard the term. There's no need to be a dick about it.

10:58 was the dick about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So wait, another huge communication error from MCPS? Who would have thought...

I am still figuring out why my 1st grader has to pull numbers from a basic addition problem and show 700 ways to do it. They wonder why parents think it is all nonsense. there are ZERO workbooks, textbooks, or communication from the teachers. So for me, this 2.0 sucks because I can't even explain to my 6yr old why she needs to do it this way. UGH!

There are a ton of adults in this country who have abysmal math skills. They did fine memorizing basic addition/multiplication, but as things build conceptually they begin to have difficulty. Making a child perform the same basic addition problem different ways ensures that they understand conceptually what the problem and the answer means. Your child will be better for it come time for algebra and calculus.

-Phsycicist whose parents were making her do this long before it was required

+1

--educated in a country that did this in the 70s

And yet can't spell physicist even when typing on a smartphone or computer.