A regular THRASS spelling activity used at school involves the MASUTA method. MASUTA is an acronym for Meaning Analysing Synthesis Using Testing Applying.
With the teacher, children discuss a word’s meaning and use it in a sentence to display understanding.
They look at whether it has a prefix or suffix and if it does, the base word (morphology).
They discuss its origins (etymology) and talk about other words in that family.
Then, using the THRASS chart, syllables are clapped to ensure each syllable contains a vowel.
The word is segmented into phonemes (sounds), and the tricky grapheme (writing choice) identified. Discussion continues about digraphs, trigraphs and even quadgraphs.
Children write the word, often using a coloured pencil to identify their tricky grapheme.
Part of this is the 'I do, we do (together with the teacher) and finally the you do (children on their own) process.'
Darine Groch
Darine Groch
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