Maze Procedure

The maze procedure, a modification of the cloze procedure, requires the reader to choose from alternatives rather than to fill in a blank.

Maze tests are consrtucted as follows:

1. Teacher should select an appropriate text.
2. First and last sentence should be left intact.
3. Beginning with the second sentence, every fifth and tenth word is deleted.
4. Three alternatives are offered. One choice is the corrcet word, another is a word that is syntactically acceptable but sematically unacceptable, the final choice is both syntactically and sematically acceptable.

References:
Roe, B. D. , Smith, S. H. & Burns, P. C. (2005) . Teaching Reading in Today's Elementary Schools ( 9th ed.) . New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.