Tiered Cloze Activity for Differential Learners

Try it here: Tiered Cloze (fill in the blank) Generator

Turn any passage into a genuinely differentiated fill-in-the-blank activity — without writing three separate versions. This offline, self-contained HTML tool takes a single passage and automatically produces Easy, Medium, and Hard printable copies, each with a different level of scaffolding.

Just type or paste your passage, mark the words you want blanked, and the generator builds all three levels from that one entry:

• Easy: word bank provided, plus the first letter of each answer
• Medium: word bank provided, no letter hints
• Hard: no word bank at all, and blanks are a uniform length so word length isn't a giveaway either

What makes this different:

• One passage, one word list, three ready-to-print levels — no duplicate content to write
• Works for any subject: reading passages, science explanations, historical summaries, vocabulary in context — anything you can write a paragraph about
• Add as many passages as you like to build a full worksheet or multi-part assessment
• A single combined word bank at the bottom keeps the page clean, even with several passages
• Shuffle the word bank order any time so it's not a straight answer key
• 100% offline and private — nothing leaves your computer, no student data collected
• Totally reusable: build unlimited cloze activities all year long

Great for: reading comprehension practice, science and social studies vocabulary, sub plans, morning work, differentiated centers, and RTI/small group instruction.

How it works: Download the single HTML file → open it in any browser → type your passage, marking answers like **this** → pick a tier → print. That's it.

Terms of Use: Licensed for use by a single teacher/classroom. Please purchase additional licenses for teammates or campus-wide use. Do not resell, redistribute, or share the editable file.

How Teachers Can Use This Sample

This interactive demo lets you experience how the Tiered Cloze Passage Generator transforms standard reading material into differentiated, scaffolded assignments. (Can only add 3 questions)

• Edit Preset Passages: You can freely modify the text and change the bolded target words across the three sample questions to match your current science, history, or literature unit.

• Create Blanks Using Double Asterisks: To turn any word into a fill-in-the-blank, simply wrap the target word in double asterisks on both sides (for example, typing **water** will automatically convert it into a formatted blank line on the student worksheet).

• Test the Difficulty Tiers: Click the print buttons at the top to instantly see how the worksheet shifts across levels—Easy (includes a word bank and first-letter hints), Medium (standard word bank), and Hard (context clues only with no word bank).

• Preview Clean Print Layouts: Use the dedicated teacher print options to generate professional, student-ready worksheets with customized labels or no labels at all.

• Save and Load Work: Experiment with saving your customized sample progress locally or exporting it as a JSON file to see how easy it is to store your templates.