Cloze is a well known teaching strategy for developing language skills in schools. The author has used his extensive experience as a classroom teacher and principal to write this series of books that provide cloze exercises that are varied and interesting.

There are two main types of cloze exercises in this book - exercises where answer lists are given and those where the students provide their own words. In both cases, reading strategies such as context clues, syntactic and semantic skills and word recognition etc. are practised.

The factual passages enable the students to use their reading skills while learning interesting facts about a variety of topics. The imaginative passages will help to expand vocabulary and could be used as starting points for written expression.

The passages involving nouns, adjectives etc. enable the teacher to use sheets as tools for reinforcing lessons on parts of speech.

Students should provide their own words in cloze review situations and not select words from a given list.