http://www.thrass.com.au THRASS (Australia) Pty Ltd was formed in February 1998.
Professional Development in evidenced based teaching practice for teaching Handwriting, Reading, Spelling, Vocabulary, Phonics, Grammar, Fluency and Comprehension skills. 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 t
We love watching all the fun ways THRASS can be used inside and outside the classroom!🌟
com.au students love their THRASS words game! Well done👏
13/08/2026
Looking for a 5-minute phonics warm-up?🤸
Challenge your class to find every grapheme of the /tʃ/ sound!
HOW TO PLAY:
1. Write a phoneme like /tʃ/ on the board.
2. Give students 2 minutes to scan their THRASS chart for pictures featuring the /tʃ/ sound (like ‘chair’ or ‘teacher’) and look around the classroom for other examples, like 'challenge'.
3. Have students write as many words as they can from the THRASS chart with the /tʃ/ phoneme on their mini-whiteboards and share as a class.👩🏫
✨WHY IT WORKS✨
• Builds chart navigation fluency & orthographic mapping.
• Perfect low-prep warm-up for explicit phonics lessons.
• Scaffolded opportunity to practise THRASS Word spelling.
• Facilitates a discussion around less familiar vowel phoneme spelling choices such as the letter 'a' representing /ɒ/ as well as /eə/ spelling choices.
11/08/2026
This week’s word is ‘dolphin’. 🐬
Can you hear all the phonemes in dolphin?
/d/ as in ‘dog’
/ɒ/ as in ‘frog’
/l/ as in ‘leg’
/f/ as in ‘dolphin’
/ə/ as in ‘fossil’
/n/ as in ‘net’
🌊 Did you know?
The word 'dolphin' comes from the Ancient Greek word 'delphis', related to 'delphys', meaning 'womb'. It is thought this name was inspired by the fact that dolphins give birth to live young, and perhaps even by their rounded body shape.
👇 Your Turn!
Can you think of another word where the digraph ‘ph’ represents the /f/ phoneme? Share it in the comments!
11/08/2026
🚨Ready to get started with THRASS?🚨
Join us online for the THRASS Foundation Level Course on 28 and 29 September, for two engaging days of practical learning to deepen your understanding of explicit phonics instruction, and see why THRASS is Australia's most highly regarded phonics training course.✨
Places are limited, so register now to secure your place and avoid missing out!⚠️
Register Here: https://events.humanitix.com/foundation-level-online-mon-28-and-tue-29-september-2026
How do you teach a student about 'silent letters'?🤫
How do you teach students these words?🙃
03/08/2026
We use it every day, but the spelling of ‘technology’ can trip up even strong readers.😅💻
This word ‘technology’ comes from Ancient Greek, combining ‘techne’ (meaning art, skill, or craft) with the suffix -ology (derived from ‘logos’, meaning ‘the study of’). So, ‘technology’ means the study of a craft or skill.🤹♀️
The word ‘technology’ has 9 phonemes:
/t/ as in ‘tap’
/e/ as in 'bed’
/k/ as in ‘school’
/n/ as in ‘net’
/ɒ/ as in ‘frog’
/l/ as in ‘leg’
/ə/ as in ‘lion’
/dʒ/ as in ‘giant’
/i:/ as in ‘pony’
Ready to take your spelling lessons from basic recall to a high-energy courtroom drama? 👩⚖️👨⚖️
‘The Linguistic Lawyer’ stops students from complaining about ‘weird’ English rules and forces them to investigate why they exist. Students argue the historical and morphological validity of complex words using the THRASS chart as their guide. 📜
Hands-on learning isn't just for science!👩🏫
'Magnetic Grapheme Swap' helps students discover how English works by putting graphemes directly into their hands. As they build and change words, students begin to see that multiple letters can work together to represent a single phoneme.
By making these concepts visible and tangible, THRASS turns word investigation into something students can actively explore, not just memorise!🧠
