Yesterday, 11.8.2023, there were the following tweets and my comments.
londonjohn@londonjohn9:
Some schools in England start preparing children in January to reach the target of 80% of the class getting 32 out of 40 correct responses to alien and real words in the June test (sorry, Screening Check!).
The nonsense words were; woid, ump, proy, luft, shrop etc.
My thoughts:
I have said it several times and I will say it again; I don’t agree with creating nonsense words as there are enough words in the English language to test kids. But, I thought this is another American or perhaps British invention to get teachers to continue arguing.
But all the same, I used a list of nonsense/pseudo words to prove
that college students who were taught the pronunciation of sounds of letters
wrongly could still read the nonsense words correctly and read fluently. How were
they able to read the nonsense words correctly? This is what I asked our
education guru Paul Thomas who told the world that he could navigate research
to find out. That was 3 years ago. Does anyone know how a kid learns to read?
Definitely not! Listen to the two college students who pronounced the letters with extraneous sounds but were able to read all the pseudo words.
