What's it like to be a comedian? Find out with a short cloze passage about the life of a comedian. Kids use eight words at the bottom of the page to fill in the blanks throughout the passage.

Concepts

cloze reading, Vocabulary, context clues

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use as a homework assignment or short warm-up activity 
• Have kids write about another career they'd be interested in with the same format, after either researching their career or interviewing someone with the same career
• Incorporate the words in the word bank into your weekly vocabulary list

Classroom Considerations

• One word in the bank is capitalized because it belongs in the beginning of a sentence; it may help some learners while distracting others

Pros

• Encourages learners to use context clues
• Subject matter would be interesting to many kids who enjoy stand-up comedy

Cons

• Activity is simplistic and doesn't address any additional reading skills beyond filling in the blanks