Nonword literacy
Upon first hearing, the very idea sounded preposterous, but when I searched the internet, I found it all over the place as "nonword reading / repetition", "nonsense words", "non word phonics / fluency", "non-word decoding", "pseudowords", etc. In other words (!), it's a real thing, and lots of people take the concept seriously as a supposedly useful device in reading theory and practice, justifying it thus:
"as a tool to assess phonetic decoding ability" (here)
"contribute to children's ability to learn new words" (here)
"a true indicator of the alphabetic principle and basic phonics" (here)
etc., etc., etc.
I would not have taken the topic of nonwords seriously and posted on it, had not AntC pointed out that it is actually being applied in the classroom in New Zealand.
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