Thrass Phonics

[Guest]

Hi has anyone heard of Thrass phonics or use it in their school? I just wanted to get an idea of what it is like as I have never heard of it and it is used at a school I am applying to work in x

[AnonyMouse_3139]

It was used by my son's school about 14 years ago in place of Letterland, but I didnt notice any difference between how either of my lads learnt. They dont use it now they stopped some time ago and went onto Jolly Phonics I believe. I think its from Australia.

[AnonyMouse_2157]

AVOID! overcomplicates matters- unless a whole school approach and spending optimum time on phonics then you would be better off sticking to letters and sounds

[Guest LornaW]

I have used it in the past but prefer Letters and Sounds now but you can find more info about it here.

 

http://www.thrass.co.uk/

 

LornaW

[Guest]

Oh no I was hoping it was going to be good! :blink: I thought it was good because it used the letter names first not the sound and so doesn't confuse children?

[AnonyMouse_3307]

The DfEdoesn't have it on their self assessed, meets the criteria list...

http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/pedagogy/phonics/b00198579/phonics-products-and-the-self-assessment-process

Edited April 8, 2013 by catma

[Guest]

We have used Thrass in our school for several years - initially the scheme was followed but as time has passed we have adapted our teaching and now use Letters and Sounds with the Thrass chart mainly used as a supporting resource. We do find the chart very useful for early writing, so when a child segments a word into phonemes they can go to the phoneme box and choose a grapheme. When we introduce a phoneme, we do introduce the 'phoneme box' with the grapheme picture cards, but we do emphasise the grapheme that they need to learn first and I always tell them that there are other ways of writing the sound. This does allow has to cater for a range of abilities and the bright little boy in my group always says "Can I learn all of them?"

[AnonyMouse_832]

I hated Thrass!

 

It was introduced in a school where I was teaching in a reception class- It may be good for older children but from my experience it went totally against the EYFS principles. I shudder when I think about teaching using it!!