Phonics for Parents - Keyword Phonics - THRASS UK

THRASS is an AnaSynth phonics programme as it uses both Analytic and Synthetic phonics.

Some phonics programmes start with whole words (Analytic Phonics programmes) and some start with sounds (Synthetic Phonics programmes).

Some even start (the whole process!) with each letter having only one sound - and children are only exposed to words that can be decoded by using these sounds. They are NOT ALLOWED to use whole-word recognition and/or cues from pictures, grammar or context (these are the Restricted Synthetic Phonics programmes). When reading, these children often stick to giving each letter only one sound and, when spelling, they often stick to a restricted number of spelling choices.

On the other hand, the THRASS programme uses a combination of both Analytic AND Synthetic phonics, AnaSynth Phonics (also known as Keyword Phonics), starting with pre-school children discussing the pictures, words and text in books with their parents and grandparents; the complete opposite of the restricted 'phonics first' programmes.

While it is important that children should know the 'Best-Guess-Sound' for a letter or group of letters when they are reading and the 'Best-Guess-Spelling' for the sounds when they are spelling (as we do through using the 24/20 Phoneme Chart), phonics is not the 'first' approach for learning to read and spell. It never was and never will be.

The THRASS programme is also multi-sensory, because it uses activities that simultaneously involve vision, hearing and touch (the 'VAK Skills' - Visual, Auditory and Kinaesthetic skills), which is very evident in 'The THRASS I CAN SKILLS'.

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• phonics
• parents
• THRASS
• analytic
• synthetic
• anasynth
• keywords

[Autho1]

Very helpful overview - thank you. Can you tell me where you get the vowel and consonant questions from, please? Which book are they in?