THRASS is divided into three main skills areas: handwriting, reading and spelling. The skills are inter-related and build on each other to increase understanding.
THRASS focuses on:
• Knowledge of the alphabet and the naming of the lower case letters and their capitals.
• Using the correct terms from the beginning.
• The alphabet as a resource, from which letters are selected to represent the phonemes of spoken English.
• Handwriting skills – the correct formation of lower case and capital letters.
• An awareness of the 44 phonemes (speech sounds) of spoken English.
• An awareness of graphs, digraphs, trigraphs and quadgraphs (spelling choices).
