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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]

The jump to criticize the teacher is the default in this area it seems.

I teach MS SS in MCPS. Home today with walking pneumonia :( Our curriculum introduces many unfamiliar vocabulary terms. Plus, as students read primary sources, they may encounter words with non-standardized spellings. I'm at a W feeder school. Three years ago, I assigned excerpts of core documents from the American Revolutionary period. A concerned parent scanned in her child's copy with "my spelling errors" circled in red ink and emailed it with note that I needed to spell-check before handing out materials because it made me look uneducated and would lessen the students' confidence in me. I replied thanking her, included a link to NARA's version of the documents, and suggested that she notify National Archives that they needed to handle the typos they had on display because it would lessen the visitors' confidence in the US government. Not a peep out of her for the rest of the year.[/quote]

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