Cloze Test Development and Application Workshop

Abstract

This article is the result of a workshop presented to elementary school teachers to analyze the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on students' reading. It is also an action to fit the 4th objective of the United Nations Organization's (UNO) sustainable development goal, related to quality education. The workshop was divided into two parts: introducing the four main brain lobes and the areas responsible for various human activities, including reading (Dehaene, 2012; Morais, 1996), and describing the Cloze background, functioning and organization, kinds of readers, and how to identify them through this pedagogical tool (Taylor, 1953; 1957; Bormuth, 1968). It is hoped that teachers will use this procedure to help improve students’ reading and teachers’ practices.