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Based on a technique Peace Corps teachers often used with a blackboard: read a text aloud several times, rubbing out a bit more of it before each reading, so students have to supply the missing words from memory and context. Click a category button to erase every word of that kind from the text — it stays erased when you pick another one too, so you build up to the whole text being blank. Then click “Read aloud”: it reads the visible words in natural phrases, and pauses for two silent seconds wherever a word is missing, the same gap a teacher would leave at the blackboard.
The categories are the same determiner/auxiliary/preposition/adverb/number word-lists already used by this folder's typing game (see Partial Eclipse and the function-word lists they're drawn from) — “Content words” just means everything that isn't one of those, which covers nouns, verbs, adjectives and most everything else in one bucket rather than splitting them further.