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 ...

Presenter 1: When the words get tricky, phonics get all sticky, blending them together doesn't work the same. You can see that all tricky words don't look the way they should be heard. Presenter 2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics ... asks students to read real words as well as "nonsense" words to test their ...