So that you can identify the student who has good sight recognition of common words but does not have a grasp of decoding unknown words.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 4:18 PM To: Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group; [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] Nonsense words What are you thoughts about teaching nonsense words in isolation---just so kids will do well on the dibels test? -------------- Original message -------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Not all books with nonsense words such as those are meant to teach phonics.B > I'm thinking of the book Jamberry.B What is a "jamberry"?B 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.B Doing this also manipulates sounds, > not just meanings. This isB a great phonologicl/phonemic awareness tool.B 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 > 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 Liveb" 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. > _______________________________________________ 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.
