Nonsense text

[Blandmum]

Not sure if anyone can help me with this but I've seen something in the past to help with reading comprehension, and pulling information from text.

It is a nonsense text, but is gramatically accurate, something like, 'All Fnargles are wobbety and some are bilfed'

the kids are asked to retrieve information from the text, to hone their decoding skills.

Anyone know what I'm talking about, or have I gone crackers?

yes, I saw it during teacher training, a tutor had it and used it re comprehension. It's a bit like that Alice in Wonderland poem.

You have not gone crackers.

Now, can you give me any googling hints. I've tried nonsense text and gibberish text, and comprehension and have drawn a blank

I think Steven Pinker had something like this in "The Language Instinct"?

I remember doing something like that for my 11+ exam MB.

would the poem jaberwocky do? Is it just to show how nonsense words seem to make sense if grammatical structure is in place?

Thank you, I think that will do niceley!

MB - I've seen that too, we did it as part of a dsylexia awareness thing

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