However, this learning strategy is not recognised in the phonics test. In some cases, children have been told by their teacher that aliens might use these nonsense words when they come to our planet.

But some schools admitted they were only introducing nonsense words to help children pass the test. One teacher told researchers the phonics check “hasn’t really impacted on the teaching of ph ...

That's got to be the reason a third of this state's primary schools are going to test children this month to see how they decode words, half of them nonsense. Apparently, puzzling over the sounds ...

especially when phonics lessons started before first grade. Those children were also better at sounding out words, including nonsense words, Shanahan says. Vocabulary development was another ...

It declared phonics instruction was crucial to teaching ... teachers might ask them to sound out so-called nonsense words, like "nant" or "zim." Gone is rote memorization of word spellings.

However research has found that the ability to read nonsense words is an unreliable predictor of later reading success. And so far, the phonics test in England has not improved reading ...

This is used to emphasise phonics teaching and hold teachers to account. This test includes the requirement for children to learn to read nonsense words, called “pseudo words”. These could ...

It declared phonics instruction was crucial to teaching ... teachers might ask them to sound out so-called nonsense words, like “nant” or “zim.” Gone is rote memorization of word spellings.

And at the beginning of this school, year she brought home these books that are really hard for her to read because they don’t have sequenced phonics words. Yeah, the balanced literacy library ...