BME Cloze Fill-Ins

This literacy worksheet helps students strengthen their understanding of Beginning-Middle-End (BME) narrative structure through a guided cloze reading activity. Students complete a short story by selecting words from a provided word bank, choosing options that make the story logical, clear, and well-sequenced.

As they work, students rely on context clues, story flow, and narrative logic to determine which words belong in each section of the text.

Learning Goals

• Cloze Reading & Context Clues
  Use surrounding text to determine the correct missing word.
• Sequencing in Narrative Texts
  Reinforce understanding of how events unfold from beginning to middle to end.
• Vocabulary in Context
  Apply vocabulary meaningfully within a story rather than in isolation.
• Understanding BME Structure
  Strengthen awareness of how each part of a narrative functions.

Instructional Benefits

• Supports Reading Comprehension
  Encourages close reading and meaning-making at the sentence and story level.
• Reinforces Narrative Organization
  Helps students internalize how stories are structured.
• Low-Barrier, High-Impact Practice
  Ideal for developing readers who benefit from guided support.
• Flexible Classroom Use
  Works well for independent practice, small groups, literacy centers, intervention, or assessment.

The BME Cloze Fill-Ins worksheet helps students build reading accuracy, narrative awareness, and confidence with story structure. By combining vocabulary choice with sequencing logic, learners strengthen essential comprehension skills that transfer directly to both reading and writing tasks.

This worksheet is part of our Story Structure (Beginning, Middle, End) Worksheets collection.