As I said when I was a teacher when they said jump, I did, no questions asked.! They told me that the purpose of nonsense words were if the students could say the sounds (at kinder level) then they had a good grasp of letters and their sounds.. But after being a yes person, I started to do some digging and there is another reason kids need to know them. Take a word like Diplodocus. It is SUPER hard to read but if you chunk it you are able to read it. Even if the parts don't make sense you are able to break it down and then know what the word is. So when you break the word apart it looks like this Dip-lo-doc-us. All nonsense but when put together it DOES make a real word! It' works for me! When I have to spell Wednesday, I break it apart! Wed-nes-day! Even adults use nonsense words! So you don't have to go searching for nonsense words, or try to make them up yourself, I am attaching a link to them! And It's Free!
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