Using the cloze procedure as a means of improving remedial reading students' use of context clues

• Main Author: Morris, Eleanor Cavell
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Memorial University of Newfoundland 1988
• Subjects: Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://research.library.mun.ca/5198/; https://research.library.mun.ca/5198/1/Morris_EleanorCavell.pdf; https://research.library.mun.ca/5198/2/Morris_EleanorCavell.pdf

This study was undertaken to analyze the use of the cloze procedure as a tool for improving remedial reading students’ use of context clues in word recognition, vocabulary development and reading comprehension. -- The students selected for study were three female and two male fifth graders from an elementary school in Conception Bay, Newfoundland. They attended a regular classroom for all subject areas of the curriculum except the Language Arts Program which was undertaken in the Learning Resource Room where individual help was given daily by a Special Education teacher. The students' ages ranged from nine to eleven years. -- The standardized tests used to obtain data were The Weschsler Intelligence Scale for Children, The Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test, The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test and The Canadian Test of Basic Skills. An analysis of the data indicated that each student was slightly below average ability in word recognition, vocabulary development and reading comprehension skills. Testing, employing a miscue analysis inventory, further indicated that none of the students were utilizing contextual clues to obtain meaning. -- The investigator used various cloze procedure methods in working with each of the five students over a ten week period. The methods employed were oral context; content words such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs; vowels from selected words; selected words with only the initial consonant included; omission of letters from words; deletion of every tenth word and random deletion of words. At the end of the ten week study period, post-testing was carried out using The Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Level D, Form 2 and experimenter-written cloze tests using cloze passages in which every tenth word was deleted. This post-testing provided an evaluation of each student's reading comprehension and determined group gains. -- The standardized post-tests indicated an increase from one year to one year four months on comprehension skills and from six months to one year one month on ...