USING THE THRASS CHART TO DEVELOP PHONEMIC AWARENESS. Phonemic awareness is an undisputed and powerful predictor for early success in reading and writing. Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify and manipulate the individual spoken sounds of a language (phonemes). English has 44 speech sounds/phonemes. Phonics is the process of writing down individual spoken sounds using letters and letter combinations to produce written words. This requires alphabetic knowledge. The iThrass app for

USING THE THRASS CHART FOR TEACHING GRAMMAR Thank you to Kate Simeon, Head of EAL/D at Aranmore Catholic College in WA, for allowing us to share this lesson video. (Kate is a THRASS Lead & Mastery Level trained teacher.) Kate is using her THRASS Floor Chart with her Year 8 ESL students for teaching pre-positions (above, below, next to etc), while helping them to learn the THRASS Chart. This is a great example of the numerous ways the THRASS key pictures and words can be used for teaching grammar

THRASS ACTIVITY SUGGESTION This is a great warm-up activity for young learners who are getting to know the THRASS Chart and to begin developing phonemic and graphemic awareness. By using the names of their classmates, the activity is both meaningful and allows learners to take ownership of the THRASS chart. Because the THRASS chart has a box for each of the 44 phonemes of English, every child's name can be explicitly explained. The image shared in the comments section below shows an activity tha

HOW TO THRASS 'CHRISTMAS' (Demonstrated by a 2016 Foundation Year learner) This great video features a prep child showing how to THRASS the word ‘Christmas’. It first shows the learner using her 'phoneme fist' to visualise and count the phonemes. She then places the graphemes onto the THRASS chart, referencing their THRASS word analogies. She also demonstrates an understanding and recognition of syllables and identifies the digraph ‘st’ as a GCA on the THRASS chart. From day one of prep, this le

Home schooling is underway for our family of THRASS Kids! The objective of this first activity is getting to know the THRASS Chart. In this activity, the kids are required to match and find objects from the THRASS chart (THRASSCHART) in their own house (or garden or wherever!) Kylie has just done row 1 and some of row 2 and can’t believe how many things she has matched. She has written down the words (under the guidance of her big brother Adam) and here she is reading back what she found. They u