Guest Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 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
Rea Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 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.
apple Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 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 Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 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 Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 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?
catma Posted April 8, 2013 Posted April 8, 2013 (edited) 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 Posted April 9, 2013 Posted April 9, 2013 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?"
surfer Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 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!!
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