What is THRASS?

THRASS is a program that helps you spell words. There are THRASS boards that have words on them and each word symbolises a sound that is in bold e.g. leg. The "l" is the sound. You can also say it in a chant. There are three different sheets. Each one has different things on them. One board has all the consonants, another has all the vowels and the other has all the sounds that are symbolised by the other boards.

They also have pictures of the words to help people read them.THRASS is not only a few boards and a chant but it can also be turned into a game. What you do is get somebody to collect some THRASS cards. The cards have the words and the pictures from the THRASS boards. The person holding the cards doesn’t show the rest of the people the words. They pick the top one and read it aloud then the rest of the people have to look at the THRASS board and say the words that stand for the sounds in the word on the card.


THRASS stands for Teaching Handwriting Reading And Spelling Skills.