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. > 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 > To: mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > 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 > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > 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. >
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