Study of the Cloze readability procedure through the analysis of an American history text

The reading teacher will often use an informal reading test to match the book with the student, but the teacher in the content areas would seldom, if ever, make use of such a tool. Even if the teacher in the content areas knew how to give an informal reading test, she probably would not administer it to a whole class because it is too time-consuming. Will the Cloze procedure indicate reasonably well the readability of the material in a text book? Could it be used to evaluate the suitability of a text for a particular class or grade level by a teacher or a department? The problem was to determine whether the Cloze readability test is economical of time and money, and accurate enough to be used by teachers of content areas