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

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Does the copyright include the publisher's information? E.g., Pearson?

[Anonymous]

Get used to it. My child comes home with incorrect spellings on her 1st grade spelling words. The teacher misspelled the word writing it down. A 1st grade word, give to all the kids. I am completely baffled.

[Anonymous]

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

[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.

Teacher here. This type of activity is called a cloze activity. So thus the spelling. It's not a misspelling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloze_test

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

+1, but I honestly didn't know that until I become a teacher.

[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.

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.

[Anonymous]

So, it's a teacher in-joke? I mean no one's teaching first graders education theory and the technique can be put to use without a label. Not the best place for a pun. Petty point, but still.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, it's a teacher in-joke? I mean no one's teaching first graders education theory and the technique can be put to use without a label. Not the best place for a pun. Petty point, but still.

I agree with this point. I don't think OP was jumping to a conclusion, as another suggested. She even started here first, saying she was hoping she could get an answer without bothering the teacher. If I got something like this, I'd be baffled on "why do they have Cloze?" My youngest is in 6th grade and we didn't get anything like this.

Interestingly, Dictionary.com lists the word as either an adjective or noun but not a verb. The use of this word in a worksheet is a terrible pun.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cloze

[Anonymous]

PP again. I'm also not blaming MCPS for using these worksheets. I'm blaming the person/company who developed them for not using good judgement in being cute with the heading.

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP again. I'm also not blaming MCPS for using these worksheets. I'm blaming the person/company who developed them for not using good judgement in being cute with the heading.

I blame MCPS. If you are trying to teach 1st graders how to spell, don't give them a worksheet with CLOSE spelled wrong. That is how 6/7yr olds will see it unless it is explained to them and even then it would go over half their heads.

[Anonymous]

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.