Ruth Miskin's Nonsense Word Reading Test

Ruth Miskin is a well-known name to anyone interested in synthetic phonics. She has developed her own literacy programme, called Read Write Inc.. I haven't used it myself, but I have heard very good things about it and would be interested to know your views if you have used it.

One of Ruth's resources is the Nonsense Word Reading Test (download at the botton of the page on Synthetic Phonics,com) which I find invaluable. As the name suggests, the test contains a list of nonsense words which require children to use their phonic knowledge to decode. I feel it helps provide a really good assessment of their phonic ability, not allowing for sight-words at all.

Try it out with your class.

Deb