Cloze passage
Patterns and data: Cloze passage — Standard
Complete a passage from context. Repeating and growing rules, surveys, tallies, tables, pictographs, bar graphs, and honest scales.
Complete each blank using the meaning of the passage.
What this resource includes
Learning fit
- Ages
- Ages 6–8, Ages 9–12
- Best starting age
- Ages 6–8
- Skills
- Reading comprehension, Vocabulary
- Learning setting
- Independent
Print-ready setup
- Paper
- A4
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Page layout
- 1 × 1
- Copies
- 1
A peek inside
- A pattern [[rule]] explains how terms repeat or grow. A [[survey]] collects responses, while a graph [[scale]] shows the value of equal intervals.
Teach it well
Complete a passage from context. Identify a pattern rule and read organised data to make a supported comparison.
Materials & preparation
- One printed learner copy; keep the answer view separate when provided
- Pencil and eraser
- Model and teach
- Think aloud through one example, including how you notice and correct a mistake. Then use this learner direction: Complete each blank using the meaning of the passage. Say what repeats or changes and point to the data that supports the answer.
- Support
- Complete the first item together, highlight the key word or visual clue, then fade the prompt.
- Stretch
- Ask for an explanation using the topic words, then add one new example. Create a new example that follows the same idea, then explain how it works.
- Check for understanding
- Ask the learner to make one choice and explain the clue or relationship used.