This rhyming cloze sheet was written by my esteemed colleague. Can you spot where the problems might arise? (If so, you too could enjoy a rewarding career as a primary school teacher...)
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It's the crab isn't it? I knew it, those crustaceans are nothing but trouble.
Crabs? Pah! It's them rolling dogs you've got to look out for...
The education system has become much more open minded then when I was at school. When I was six years old we had to write a story. I decided that I would be creative and had a cat that barked and a dog that miowed, in the magic realism vein of things. I can't quite remember where the story concluded. My teachers were so concerned they called my parents in.
So, I'm inclined to wonder whether it's sound practice to teach our kid to let cats wear hats.
Prolix - wrong! Go and stand in the naughty corner.
Billy - You're not even trying. Naughty corner.
G - ah, always the iconoclast. Stupid teachers. But you, also, are wrong, and must join Prolix and Billy in the naughty corner.
Swearies aside, I presume the desired answer to number 3 is 'cluck'.
But ducks don't cluck. (Unless you're ghotighoti.)
f**k :]
and crab who likes to grab? ]:->
What about a crab who like to have a conflab? An unwieldy rhyme, but still.
The duck could also maybe suck - like as in "Hey dude, your duck totally sucks." But who likes to suck? No duck I've ever met.
Perhaps it is a duck in the midst of an identity crisis and he says 'cluck' rather than the conventional 'quack'. A maverick duck if you will...
Tim - right. (She is Canadian, you have to make allowances for the colonials you know. Or maybe Canadian ducks do say cluck.)
Bravo, Shyha! Yes, I was steering them away from this most of the lesson.
Lateral thinking Sar, I like it. I'd have loved it if one of my six year olds had come up with "Dude, your duck totally sucks".
Prolix, I believe that is what she was intending, but she wrote it right at the end of the day. You see what happens when us poor underpaid teachers are overworked?
i been told i'm not good with rhymes... it's good to know that teachers make mistake tho!
Treespotter, how dare you even suggest such a thing!
(PS you may not be good with a rhyme but I find your writing poetic.)
What is 'cloze'?
I'd quite like the duck to 'run amok', or indeed 'amble amok', which I've just remembered is my new favourite phrase.
I'm at a loss to think of what the dog might roll on. Is it a log? In which case, wouldn't that be a bit uncomfortable?
Cloze is just a fancy word for gap, I do believe. Run amok! Tee hee! Our remit is to expand their vocabulary and extend their language, after all.
Yes... in her defence, as I say, she did write this at the end of a long day. I'm not at all sure how her mind was working.
Is the answer shuck? Does the duck like oysters?
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PS do I win a prize?!?
You get a prize for the most upmarket answer Claire ;-)
Yes, I can see there's a problem with the duck that likes to cluck.
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