What Is a Cloze Activity

cloze activity | NCpedia. noun. Definition: Activity in which words are removed from a passage for a learner to fill in as an exercise in reading comprehension. The missing words may or may not be provided in a word bank.

What does cloze notes stand for?

Definition of cloze : of, relating to, or being a test of reading comprehension that involves having the person being tested supply words which have been systematically deleted from a text.

Who invented cloze test?

Cloze procedure was invented by Wilson Taylor in the 1950s, and has become an accepted means of assessing both the readability of a variety of written materials and the reading ability of a variety of subjects.