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    This document provides directions and test items for a nonword reading test. It lists 28 nonwords - 14 one-syllable and 14 two-syllable - for a child to read aloud. It notes that either a regular or irregular pronunciation is acceptable. It also provides scoring guidelines, stating that for 7-year-olds, a score below 3 falls below the norm, and for 10-year-olds, scores below 26 for one-syllable words and 7 for two-syllable words are below the norm.

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    This document provides directions and test items for a nonword reading test. It lists 28 nonwords - 14 one-syllable and 14 two-syllable - for a child to read aloud. It notes that either a regular or irregular pronunciation is acceptable. It also provides scoring guidelines, stating that for 7-year-olds, a score below 3 falls below the norm, and for 10-year-olds, scores below 26 for one-syllable words and 7 for two-syllable words are below the norm.

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    This document provides directions and test items for a nonword reading test. It lists 28 nonwords - 14 one-syllable and 14 two-syllable - for a child to read aloud. It notes that either a regular or irregular pronunciation is acceptable. It also provides scoring guidelines, stating that for 7-year-olds, a score below 3 falls below the norm, and for 10-year-olds, scores below 26 for one-syllable words and 7 for two-syllable words are below the norm.

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    Non Word Test

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    This document provides directions and test items for a nonword reading test. It lists 28 nonwords - 14 one-syllable and 14 two-syllable - for a child to read aloud. It notes that either a regular or irregular pronunciation is acceptable. It also provides scoring guidelines, stating that for 7-year-olds, a score below 3 falls below the norm, and for 10-year-olds, scores below 26 for one-syllable words and 7 for two-syllable words are below the norm.

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    The Nonword Reading Test

    Directions:

    Print these words individually on cards and present them in random order for the child to
    read aloud. Record all reading responses.

    Either a regular or an irregular pronunciation is acceptable, i.e. if “jint” is read as rhyming


    with “lint” it is regular whereas if “jint” is read as rhyming with “pint” it is irregular; “soser”
    read as “soaser” is regular, rhyming with “loser” is irregular.

    Test Items:
    One Syllable Two Syllable
    plood louble
    aund hausage
    wolt soser
    jint pettuce
    hign kolice
    pove skeady
    wamp dever
    cread biter
    slove islank
    fongue polonel
    nowl narine
    swad kiscuit
    chove
    duede
    sworf
    jase
    freath
    warg
    choiy

    For 7 year olds, a score below 3 falls significantly below the norm.

    For 10 year olds, a score below 26 on one-syllable words and 7 on two-syllable words
    falls significantly below the norm.

    Source:
    Snowling, M. J., Stackhouse, J. and Rack, J. P. (1986). Phonological dyslexia and dysgraphia: A
    developmental analysis. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 3, 309-339.

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