Cloze Reading Drills Grade 6 Author:Peter J. Ketchum The cloze procedure actively involves the reader in a search for meaning. The procedure requires focused attention and does not allow rote responses. Readers must focus on the context and the content of a passage in order to correctly predict the missing parts that will restore the meaning to the whole. — Cloze passages are structured in a variet... more »y of ways. Each involves the deletion of parts of a passage, or, in pre-reading, parts of a structure. Cloze passages include random deletions, spaced deletions, structural deletion and lexical deletions.« less