ClozeMint
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ORIGINAL TEACHING NOTE

Choose a gap with a purpose.

A missing word is a small teaching decision. Decide what students should notice, then read the exercise as a learner would.

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Start with the learning focus

For a past-tense focus, select a verb and give a base-form hint if that suits your lesson. For a phrase focus, select the whole phrase. Keep enough context to make the task useful, and preserve punctuation around the gap.

An ambiguity to discuss

Open gap: Sam felt _____ after the walk.

Plausible answers: tired, happy, cold, refreshed.

Each answer describes a possible experience. The sentence alone does not establish which one Sam felt. An answer key containing only “tired” would overlook reasonable alternatives.

One possible revision

Sam had not slept well. After a long walk, he could hardly keep his eyes open. He felt _____.

With a wordbank: tired · curious · generous

This context and wordbank make “tired” the intended choice among these options. In an open response, “sleepy” or “exhausted” may still fit. Record the alternatives you intend to accept and review the final task yourself.

Check the exercise before sharing

  1. Read the student edition without looking at the key. List other answers that might fit.
  2. Check whether the hint gives away the focus or supplies the support your students need. Hint count is not a validated difficulty level.
  3. Read wordbank distractors in the sentence. Replace distracting ambiguities if you want one intended choice.
  4. Check spelling, phrase boundaries, punctuation and the source’s permitted uses.
  5. Export both editions together and compare their revision IDs. A later edit needs a new matching pair.

Try the small repair-corner draft

The tool includes one short, original synthetic paragraph about a school repair corner. It has two past-tense gaps and one phrase gap. Treat it as a starting point for review, not a tested exam item.

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