Fill-in-the-Blank Worksheet Generator

Paste any text. Blank out every other word, a random share of the words, or exactly the words you click. Each blank is sized to the word that belongs there. Use it as a study guide, a quiz or a memory exercise, in print or cursive.

Start free Try fill-in-the-blank free for 7 days

Blank-out sheet types are on Lite and Plus; the 7-day trial includes them, card required, nothing charged for 7 days. Free prints copywork, first-letter hints and memory lines, 20 pages a month, no card.

Fill-in-the-blank worksheet of the opening of the Gettysburg Address with eight hand-picked words replaced by blanks sized to each word

Three ways to blank a text

A fill-in-the-blank worksheet (teachers call it a cloze worksheet) removes words from a text and leaves a blank for the student to supply them. DittoSheets gives you three ways to choose the blanks, and each blank is printed the length of the missing word, which gives the student a clue and discourages guessing. Add a Copywork sheet of the full text and you have the answer key in the same set.

One sentence, three sheets

The opening of the Gettysburg Address, printed three ways.

Every Other Word LITE
Every Other Word worksheet: Four ___ and ___ years ___ our ___ brought ___ on ___ continent

Alternate words become blanks. A Reverse sheet blanks the other half, so two sheets cover every word.

Randomized PLUS
Randomized redacting worksheet of the Gettysburg Address with roughly forty percent of words blanked at random

Set a percentage and the builder blanks that share of the words at random. Print it again and the blanks move.

Words you pick PLUS
Manual redacting worksheet of the Gettysburg Address with score, seven, fathers, continent, nation, Liberty, proposition and equal blanked

Click the words that matter (score, seven, fathers, continent, nation, Liberty, proposition, equal) and only those become blanks.

The study guide that writes itself

Paste a science definition, a history date list, a grammar rule or a catechism answer. Click the terms that will be on the test and print. The student fills in the blanks from memory, checks the answers against the copywork sheet, and repeats it the next day with a fresh copy.

  • Science: laws and definitions with the key terms removed.
  • History and civics: the Preamble, the Gettysburg Address, the Pledge, presidents and dates.
  • Grammar and Latin: rules and declensions with the endings blanked.
  • Scripture and catechism: the verse with the words that carry the meaning removed.
  • Spelling in context: a sentence with the week's spelling words blanked.
Newton's First Law of Motion fill-in-the-blank worksheet with rest, motion, speed, direction and unbalanced force blanked out PLUS

Newton's First Law with the five terms that matter blanked by hand.

Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll as an every-other-word fill-in-the-blank worksheet on handwriting lines LITE

Jabberwocky, every other word. Poems recite themselves once half the words are gone.

Blanks are a rung on the memory ladder

DittoSheets is a memorization system, and fill-in-the-blank sits in the middle of it. Copywork first, so the words are familiar. Then blanks, so the student supplies half the text. Then First Letter Hints, where every word is down to one letter. Then Memory Lines, blanks only, the whole thing from memory.

Every step prints from the same pasted text, in the same font and on the same lines.

See the whole memorization method

Details that make the blanks fair

Blanks sized to the word

A three-letter word gets a short blank, "proposition" gets a long one. The length gives the student a clue about the answer.

Reverse sheet LITE

Every Other Word has a Reverse partner that blanks the other half, so the two sheets together test every word.

Set the difficulty PLUS

Randomized Redacting takes a percentage. Twenty percent for a first pass, sixty when they are close to memorized.

Click the words PLUS

Manual Redacting blanks exactly the words you click and nothing else.

Answer key built in

Switch on Copywork and the full text prints in the same set. Punctuation stays put on every sheet.

Print or cursive

Teaching print and cursive fonts on handwriting lines, so the blank is filled in the hand they are learning.

DittoSheets makes much more than fill-in-the-blank sheets. The tour shows every sheet type, font, line style and teacher tool, and which plan includes each one.

Tour every feature

Fill-in-the-blank worksheet FAQ

The blank-out sheet types are paid: Every Other Word and its Reverse are on Lite, and Randomized and Manual Redacting are on Plus. The 7-day Plus trial includes all of them (card required, nothing charged for 7 days). A Free account prints copywork, First Letter Hints and Memory Lines from the same text, 20 pages a month, no card.

A cloze worksheet is a text with some words removed and replaced by blanks for the reader to fill in. Fill-in-the-blank, cloze and redacting all describe the same kind of sheet.

Yes. Manual Redacting lets you click the words in your text, and only those words become blanks. Everything else prints normally.

Yes. Randomized Redacting takes a percentage of words to blank. Every Other Word blanks exactly half, and the Reverse sheet blanks the other half.

Switch on Copywork and the complete text prints in the same sheet set, in the same font and layout, so checking is a side-by-side glance.

Yes. Verse numbers and stanza breaks stay in place. Blanking a verse is one of the most common uses, especially the step after copywork in weekly memory work.

Make the next sheet

Memorization Worksheets Spelling Worksheet Generator Copywork Generator Memory Verse Worksheets

Your text, your blanks, one minute

Paste the text, choose how it gets blanked, and print a fill-in-the-blank worksheet with the answer key in the same set.

Start free Try fill-in-the-blank free for 7 days

Blank-out sheet types are on Lite and Plus; the trial includes them. Card required, nothing charged for 7 days.