Meath Green Junior School

• THRASS stands for Teaching Handwriting, Reading And Spelling Skills.
  
• THRASS is a whole-school synthetic phonics programme for teaching learners of all ages and abilities using pictures and keywords.
  
• THRASS helps learners to understand the building blocks of the English language. It teaches them about the 44 phonemes (speech sounds) of spoken English and the 120 graphemes (spelling choices) of written English.
  
• THRASS teaches learners that, basically, when spelling we change phonemes to graphemes and when reading we change graphemes to phonemes.
  
• THRASS uses a multi-sensory (visual, auditory and kinaesthetic) approach to teach meta-cognitive strategies (thinking skills) that empower learners with lifelong word-solving skills.

Sam Pocock 5I has written a poem about THRASS and here it is...

Go and open the door of THRASS,
Maybe there is a yellow THRASS chart,
With a multitude of phonemes on the word chart,
Stuck to the door,
If you open the door,
You will hear children,
Rapping to the music
for THRASS.