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What is the Summer Series?
A collection of listener favourites from the Structured Literacy Podcast to get you prepared for 2026.
Today's Episode
In this week's episode, we're going to talk about how Nonsense words play an important part in phonics assessment, but what about in Years 3-6? This week's episode of the structured literacy podcast explores whether middle and upper primary teachers need to include them in their classrooms.
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Chapters
1. Summer Series - Do Nonsense Words Have a Place in Upper Primary? (00:00:00)
2. Why Nonsense Words Matter (00:03:46)
3. Assessment Not Instruction (00:06:13)
4. Early Years Screening Tools (00:08:45)
5. Beyond Reading: Spelling Insights (00:12:19)
6. Morphology Diagnostics Explained (00:15:40)
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