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Why don’t we use real words for decoding skills assessment rather than non-words?

April 26, 2017assessment decoding don’t Skills words

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Why don’t we use real words for decoding skills assessment rather than non-words?

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The nonsense words are used because students differ on their sight word recognition skills. By using non-words, we can more accurately assess their ability to match letters to sounds and their ability to decode an unknown word when it is presented.