I need your help coming up with nonsense words!!

[wy_kid_wrangler04]

I am having ds read nonsense words to help with his reading to get him to stop guessing. I am looking for simple cvc words, ccvc words and cvcc words (just basic k/early first level!) I didn't realize how hard these were to come up with :lol: TIA!

[alisoncooks]

When I taught 1st grade, we would (every week or so) play a game that I titled "Is it a WORD?" (I did it all-out game show style, with loud exaggerated reading of the title, etc). It was one of our favorite phonics games and it was for this specific purpose. :)

 

I just used basic onsets and rimes.

Onsets: I would just go down the alphabet (b, br, bl, c, ch, cr, cl, d, dr, f, fl, fr, g, gl, gr ...etc). These I put on 1 index card (I added blends/sounds to the lists as we introduced them.)

 

Rimes/word families: Just start with each vowel and tack on different ending consonants/blends. (ad, ag, ap, and, ast, ab, est, ed, en... etc). These I put on a 2nd batch of index cards (different color). Then I have the draw 1 card from each pile, read, then sort into "word" and "not a word" piles.

 

(You could even break it into 3 parts: onset, medial vowel sound, ending consonant/blend, for more advanced blending.)

 

Here are some ready made lists, examples:

http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/phonics/nonsensewordtest.pdf

 

http://www.resourceroom.net/readspell/wordlists/default.asp

 

http://www.paec.org/itrk3/files/pdfs/readingPdfs/coolToolsPhonics.pdf

 

http://www.fcrr.org/curriculum/pdf/gk-1/p_final_part3.pdf

Edited May 14, 2012 by alisoncooks

[Trillian]

I played a game with DS when we were doing this (I think it was from Games for Reading from Peggy Kaye). I put letters on post-its (more vowels than consonants, looking back on it, using scrabble tiles, or from Bananagrams would have been much easier and more permanent) and we would pick and sound them out. Of course, you often don't get a vowel, but that made it more silly and light-hearted (and also reinforced the words need vowels for spelling purposes). You could also do it so you each had a cache of vowels and you only picked the consonants (the good ideas always come when you're done with the activity :001_smile: ).

 

I think using nonsense words not only made it fun, but gave him confidence to sound out longer things as he got older.

 

HTH,

[CroppinIt]

I am having ds read nonsense words to help with his reading to get him to stop guessing. I am looking for simple cvc words, ccvc words and cvcc words (just basic k/early first level!) I didn't realize how hard these were to come up with :lol: TIA!

 

Get thee to Seussville. Take your pick!

[ElizabethB]

My concentration game.

 

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/concentrationgam.html

[Lang Syne Boardie]

My concentration game.

 

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/concentrationgam.html

 

:iagree: I was just about to recommend this. Elizabeth, I'll be using this with one of the students in the family I'm working with. Thanks for always reminding us of this excellent resource you've made. :grouphug:

[Critterfixer]

I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but ElizabethB has some very cool sentences with "nonsense" words that are really words, but just not ones that you would see today. Love those.

 

Another thing would be to get a foreign language dictionary and pick and choose.

 

For bigger words or just some fun, along with Seuss I'd suggest Shel Silverstein's Don't Bump the Glump! (I think I've got a Gritchen in my kitchen....). And don't forget Rutabaga Stories, Sandburg. Tons of good nonsense words in there.

Edited May 14, 2012 by Critterfixer

[wy_kid_wrangler04]

Thank you so much everybody!! :D