The effects of a cloze procedure developed from transfer feature theory of processing in reading on immediate and delayed recall of good and poor readers were studied. Easy cloze passages were generated so all cloze deletions were successfully supplied by approximately 75% of 78 students used in a norming process. Twenty third-grade good and twenty fifth-grade poor readers read and recalled an easy cloze and a normal, non-cloze version of two expository passages. Recalls were scored according to an analysis of discourse procedure. Results indicated that fifth-grade poor readers remember more than third-grade good readers immediately after reading and after a one-week delay. Moreover, fifth-grade poor readers remember more from reading an easy cloze passage than from reading a normal passage in immediate recall. Implications for the use of this cloze procedure as an instructional technique are discussed.
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