Nonsense words
From FreeReading
| Activity Type: Build Accuracy |
| Activity Form: Game |
| Grade: 1 |
| Group Size: Small Group, Large Group, Whole Class |
| Length: 15 minutes |
| Materials: Index card size letters cards, The activity can be done orally or using letter cards |
| Goal: To reinforce letter sounds and rhymes by creating nonsense words using a known word family. |
| Items: This is an oral activity. |
What to do
- Using a known word family such as the "at" family replace the known initial consonants with consonants that create words that make nonsense words
- Using the consonants "d, g, j, l, q, t, & w" add the consonants to the "at" family to make the words dat, gat, jat, lat, qat, tat, and wat.
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About this activity
After DIBELS assessments I discovered that one of my best readers could not pass the nonsense word section.