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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

HOW TO THRASS 'CHRISTMAS' This throwback 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. | The THRASS Institute - Teaching, Handwriting, Reading & Spelling Skills

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