Cloze Passage Generator

Generate a cloze passage by deleting every Nth word while preserving punctuation.

Description

A cloze passage replaces periodically selected words with blanks while retaining surrounding punctuation.

A cloze passage replaces periodically selected words with blanks while retaining surrounding punctuation. Word tokenization determines the counted ordinals.^[1]

Generate a cloze passage by deleting every Nth word while preserving punctuation.

When to use Cloze Passage Generator

Use this tool to generate a cloze passage by deleting every Nth word while preserving punctuation.

Prepare the lesson timeline, roster, observations or assessment labels requested. Use consistent units and exact identifiers, then choose comparison criteria appropriate to the activity.

How to use Cloze Passage Generator and understand its results

Prepare the lesson timeline, roster, observations or assessment labels requested. Use consistent units and exact identifiers, then choose comparison criteria appropriate to the activity.
Enter passage, deleteEveryNthWord, firstDeletionOrdinal using the field table and calculation rules, then run the tool.
Read clozePassage, deletedWords. The explanation below defines the units, signs, ordering and any flags or placeholder values.
If the tool reports an input issue, correct the values and run it again. Apply the stated assumptions when interpreting a successfully returned result.

Input field	Meaning	Value type; see rules below	Requirement
passage	Passage	string	Required
deleteEveryNthWord	Delete every nth word	number	Required
firstDeletionOrdinal	First deletion ordinal	number	Required

Enter passage, positive safe-integer interval and first deletion ordinal from one through that interval. Recognize Unicode letter/number runs with internal straight/curly apostrophes or hyphens; replace chosen words with four underscores and return originals in order. Require at least one recognized word.

delete word ordinal k when k≥first AND (k−first) mod interval=0

Units, indexing, boundary conditions and exceptional cases are defined in the calculation rules above.

Output field	Meaning	Value type
clozePassage	Cloze passage	string
deletedWords	Deleted words	list of string

json

{
  "input": {
    "passage": "One two three four five six.",
    "deleteEveryNthWord": 3,
    "firstDeletionOrdinal": 3
  },
  "output": {
    "clozePassage": "One two ____ four five ____.",
    "deletedWords": [
      "three",
      "six"
    ]
  }
}

Limitations and assumptions

No semantic selection or difficulty assessment is performed. Tokenization may differ from a language-specific word segmenter.

Numeric inputs must be finite. Follow the calculation-specific rules for overflow, underflow and exceptional cases. Extremely large text inputs are rejected. Missing required fields, extra fields, wrong value types and violations of the calculation rules are input errors.

Alternative or Complementary methods

Use Elaborative Question Builder: Turn caller-supplied causal mechanisms into elaborative why-questions. For a complementary task, use MCQ Distractor Audit: Audit MCQ distractors for duplicates and caller-defined minimum length.

References

Cloze Passage Generator — tool.io

Similar or alternative tools

Elaborative Question Builder
Turn caller-supplied causal mechanisms into elaborative why-questions.
MCQ Distractor Audit
Audit MCQ distractors for duplicates and caller-defined minimum length.