- Teacher assigns students to complete the cloze passage independently and monitors progress.

- Teacher presses students to complete work thoughtfully, asking: Does that make sense?

- Teacher reads some responses aloud to spur student thinking.

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TEACHER:  Okay, can we have a little quiet now until everybody’s finished up? When you are done with Word Generation, please put your pen or pencil down so I know who is done and who’s still working. And we can move on together. Antoine?

TEACHER:  Thank you.

In about thirty seconds we should be done. I wanna get to… Hm.

STUDENT:  Mr.— Mr. Greene, is this, uh, one word? Or is it two?

TEACHER:  We’re on page twenty-nine.

STUDENT:  Oh.

TEACHER:  Ssh.

TEACHER:  Good. Good, good, good.

TEACHER:  Fantastic. Excellent, excellent. Maria, okay.

STUDENT:  Oh, yeah.

TEACHER:  Now Word Generation should be either completed or almost done. Look. Okay.

STUDENT:  Same here.

TEACHER:  Word Generation?

TEACHER:  No, no, no, no. Word Generation.

STUDENT:  I don’t get it.

TEACHER:  Twenty-nine. Thank you.

TEACHER:  If you have a…

TEACHER: You don’t have to tell me. What’d I tell you to do? What’d I tell you to do? What’d I tell you to do when you’re done? And that last one’s not done. There’s no word in it.

STUDENT:  Put in words.

TEACHER:  And that one’s not done.

TEACHER:  Read them. See if they make sense.

TEACHER:  Okay. Okay, let me— let’s look at it.

STUDENT:  More— more likely to

TEACHER:  Uh, more likely to occur in groups. Does that make sense? The stereotype? Should the— this new study found that students seems to play games…

STUDENT:  Rated M.

TEACHER:  …rated M were more likely to occur in groups?

STUDENT:  You don’t see that?

TEACHER:  Occur?

STUDENT:  Yeah.

TEACHER:  Hm. Mm. What about this one?

STUDENT:  Yeah, that’s— that’s...

TEACHER:  Crimes young people, critics, eh, claim that such scenes banned? No, that doesn’t make sense. Such scene— Okay, so look at ’em closely, please. Put an effort in. Antoine[. And what I said, when you’re done with that, is to study for the test. Okay? All right, how— how are people doin’  now?

STUDENT:  Finished.

STUDENT:  I’m done.

TEACHER:  Uh, anybody not done?

TEACHER:  Okay, Janine and everybody, listen up. All right—

 

 

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