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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Former teacher here.....

As many have stated, the close technique is used often in teaching.  Cloze is not misspelled.

OP - when presenting this sheet to the students, did the teacher explain the use of the word “Cloze” in the title?
He/she may have explained to students the meaning of this word and your child didn’t convey that information to you.

I think the thing that bothers me here is that too many people have chosen to criticize the teacher, and education in general, instead of doing a simple google search to discover that the teacher was not in error.  [/quote]

I think the whole issue is petty, but in a perfect world the worksheet would have had a different title as the pun should mean nothing to a child and it's doubtful the teacher explained the technique.  It appears they were taken from a one time workbook by that title and altogether in a book whose only purpose is this type of exercise, using the term is appropriate and the pun is cute.  But individually it's clearly a source of confusion and there's really no reason a parent should google individual words in a worksheet title.  This only makes sense to someone who already knows it's a technical term.  Asking on the forum is just as reasonable and OPs question wasn't inflammatory.  My DC is in 9th and I know she used these worksheets (only remember because my husband was amused by the first name Cherry don't remember discussing "cloze") so they are pretty ubiquitous in MCPS and maybe no place else, forum users may be more informed than google in this case.[/quote]

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