Phonemic Awareness Training THRASS 15 August 2017

Teachers are back to school with fully charged batteries! These 5 days, they are attending a week-long professional development programme at Hikarigaoka campus that brings a full week of courses, trainings and discussions.

Christine Cougan, Master THRASS Trainer is is visiting us both Tuesday and Wednesday. THRASS is an acronym for ‘Teaching Handwriting, Reading And Spelling Skills’. THRASS is a phonetics teaching-tool that has made a paradigm shift in the teaching of phonetics. It has a phonographic, multisensory focus, complemented by an analogous learning model that makes reading and spelling acquisition much simpler, faster and more sustainable than conventional ‘phonic’ approaches. As a classroom strategy THRASS is fun, systematic, explicit and linguistically correct.