March 3, 2023
Decoding Nonsense Words Activities for 1st and 2nd Grade

Decoding Nonsense Words Activities for 1st and 2nd Grade

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Here is a fun, hands-on way to build CVC words and categorize them according to real or nonsense words. Helping kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grdae students through this decoding nonsense words activities is an important early literacy skills as they begin to read and write words. This nonsense word activities is perfect for a literacy center or at home learning too! We’ve included ideas for adapting the activity to help nonsense words 2nd grade too.
Here is a fun, hands-on way to build CVC words and categorize them according to real or nonsense words. Helping kindergarten, first grade, and 2nd grdae students through this decoding nonsense words activities is an important early literacy skills as they begin to read and write words. This nonsense word activities is perfect for a literacy center or at home learning too! We've included ideas for adapting the activity to help nonsense words 2nd grade too.

Decoding nonsense words activities

This fun, hands-on decoding nonsense words activities is pefect to help kindergartners, grade 1, grade 2, and grade 3 students practice recognitizing if the word they crated is real or nonsense. This Nonsense Words Activities is lots of fun and perfect for at home, liteacy center in the classroom, or as a supplement to your homeschool reading curriculum too.

Why is it necessary to learn about nonsense words?

1) If a reader can decode a nonsense word it means he/she can try to decode any word, no matter how difficult(given he/she knows the isolated sounds). It is an indication as to how good a child’s decoding skills are, and a way to develop those decoding skills.

2) When a child reads and comes across a word he does not know, he can decode this word even if it does not make sense to him. Perhaps it will then make sense to him after reading it in context. It is strategy a struggling reader can use.
3) If a child reads and decodes a word, but realize the word is a nonsense word, he can try to say it in a different way to make it a real word. For example: “seat” read as two short vowels will not make sense, but read it again as a long “ee” sound and it is a real word.
4) Nonsense words gives opportunity to learn spelling rules. For example, “giv” will be a nonsense word because we don’t end a word with a “v”. You will need a silent “e” at the back to make it a real word(give).

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Nonsense word activities

You will need:

  • a tray with 3 compartments (or simply use 3 containers on a tray like the heart cups)
  • alphabet letters(we used craft foam ones here)

Add consonants to the first and last containers and vowels to the middle one. You can mark it as shown below:

 

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Let your child choose a letter from the first container, then the middle one, then the last one. Place it in that order on the tray. Try and read the word. Is it a real word or a nonsense word? Place the real words at one side and the nonsense words at the other side. Do this until your letters run out. Count how many real words you have and how many 2nd grade nonsense words. Which side wins?

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Nonsense words first grade

Extend the activity by “fixing” the nonsense words so that it is real words. You can also add more containers and make longer words for 4 letter words to adapt it for second graders

A great little nonsense words activities to work on word building, decoding and problem solving too!

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    TechyKids Canada

    Activities like these are perfect for making learning fun for kids. I am sure kids would enjoy it too, thanks for sharing this idea!