Not all books with nonsense words such as those are meant to teach phonics. I'm thinking of the book Jamberry. What is a "jamberry"? It's fun to play with the silliness of language and it also shows kids how language can be played with and manipulated to make new meanings. Doing this also manipulates sounds, not just meanings. This is a great phonologicl/phonemic awareness tool. Kids often make up their own new words: my own kids say things like "prettiful" and "overbalanced", knowing they are being silly.
Cathy Title I Reading -----Original Message----- From: anne ehrmanntraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 2:00 pm Subject: [MOSAIC] Nonsense words tried to post something last night, but I didn't see the posting. So I will ost it again. I am taking a literacy course in graduate school and I had a uestion about books with nonwords or nonsense words. In our graduate class our rofessor presented to us a book called "Hairy Bear" The book has sentences uch as "I will crim cram crash'em" While these are not real words they are eing used for phonics. Is it such a good idea to use books with words that are eaningless? Do you use these type of books in the classroom? Thank you for our help. -Anne ________________________________________________________________ nstantly invite friends from Facebook and other social networks to join you on indows Live™ Messenger. ttps://www.invite2messenger.net/im/?source=TXT_EML_WLH_InviteFriends ______________________________________________ osaic mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] o unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to ttp://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
