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

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THRASS TRAINING RAISES THE BAR FOR TEACHERS AND LEARNERS! This Term four writing sample was produced by a prep student who has been taught using THRASS from day one of school (close-up sample in comments below). This learner has been taught explicitly, systematically and in context about Alphabetic Principle and understands that words are composed of graphs, digraphs, trigraphs and quadgraphs - the spelling patterns needed to construct everyday language for written expression. There has been no

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

THRASS BINGO ON THE FLOOR CHART! This is a great activity to help preps learn the 120 THRASS pictures and key words. The activity can be extended or adapted for older students by calling out different criteria e.g. 'a digraph', 'a vowel grapheme' or 'a polysyllabic word'. The THRASS Picture Sheets are a fantastic resource that can be used for lots of different THRASS activities. Each A4 sheet contains 20 THRASS pictures and can be found in PDF form on your THRASS Resource Kit CD or dowloaded for

USING THE THRASS RAPS & SEQUENCES CD TO PRACTISE HANDWRITING "Check out our daily handwriting routine! Over the years many teachers have commented on the high standard of our learners' handwriting. Handwriting is not self taught, there has been lots of explicit teaching and practise involved. We have heightened expectations because we understand undoing weeks/months/years of a 'bad habit' is harder on the learner (and their future teachers) in the long run. It's so important that we free up our