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THRASS (Australia) Pty Ltd was formed in February 1998. Since then the current formats for THRASS professional training have been developed along with the list of teaching resources.
THRASS is widely used in Australian schools as a whole-school approach and by individual teachers at the classroom level.

 

THRASS professional development courses are run on a regular basis in all states and territories.
Details of these courses may be found in the Professional Development
section of the THRASS website.
Details of THRASS teaching products may be found in the Teaching
Resources section of the THRASS website.

Apart from Australia, THRASS Australia Pty Ltd has responsibility for most
of north, east and south-east asia, Oceania and Canada.

All THRASS professional development courses and production of THRASS
resources for use in the above areas is coordinated from head office in
Perth, Western Australia

Denyse Ritchie
Executive Director, THRASS Australia Pty Ltd
Co-author of THRASS.

Company details.

THRASS (AUSTRALIA) Pty Ltd
Suites 3 & 4, 10 Carbon Court, Osborne Park
Western Australia 6017

PO Box 1447, Osborne Park DC
Western Australia 6916

Tel. 08 9244 2119
Int. +61 8 9244 2119
Fax. 08 9244 4044

E-Mail: enquiries@thrass.com.au
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Website: www.thrass.com.au

ABN 15 081 990 490

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This was written by Andrea Mace for parents who couldnt attend their workshop
Source- http://www.menps.vic.edu.au/notices/THRASS_spelling_workshop.pdf

The THRASS Program identifies 20 vowel phonemes and 24 consonant phonemes. A phoneme can be represented by different combinations of letters, eg( a, a-e, ai, ay, all make the ay as in play sound). The vowels are the most difficult to establish and correct. They have to be recognised by ear. Vowels are sounds made by allowing the breath to pass freely through the mouth. The tongue and the lips alter their positions for each vowel. They are always voiced (vocal chords must vibrate), and the tip of the tongue should always touch the lower teeth.

HELPING YOUR CHILD WITH THEIR SPELLING HOMEWORK
• Stretch the word out to establish the number of phonemes (sounds that make up the word not letters) eg d r i n k (5 phonemes),
s w ee t (4 phonemes), c o ff ee, (4 phonemes), g ar d e n (5 phonemes)
• To establish how many are vowel phonemes, clap the syllables for the word eg gar den has 2 syllables. The number of syllables is dictated by the number of vowel phonemes, so if you know there are 2 syllables there must be 2 vowel phonemes. In the word ‘garden’ the vowel phonemes are “ar” as in car, and “e” as in wooden. The ‘ar’ is made up of two letters but it is only one phoneme.
• During our workshop, many parents had difficulty hearing the two consonant phonemes at the end of words like drink, nest, milk, because we blend them together as we say them.
• Some words in our English language have to be learned visually, the rules of
THRASS don’t even apply eg one, two,
• Children do internalise familiar words eventually and spell them without
thinking. As they become competent spellers and writers, they rely less on
sounding out words.
• I will now give some examples to try to make sense of what I have said –
Word Number of vowel
phonemes
Number of
consonant
phonemes
Number of
syllables
dolphin d o l ph i n 2 4 2
happy h a pp y 2 2 2
father f a th er 2 2 2
quilt q u i l t 1 4 1
computer c o m p u t er 3 4 3
Note that the letter Q and X are represented on the THRASS Chart as follows -
Q makes the C as in cat sound so it goes in that group and X (in X-ray) is made up
of three phonemes – ‘e’ as in bed, ‘c’ as in cat and ‘s’ as in sit. In ‘fox’ the X is
made up of two phonemes – ‘c’ as in cat and ‘s’ as in sit. Very tricky

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