The T-55
THRASS Picture Cards pack contains 120 colourful laminated cards (65mm x
75mm portrait format). These cards are used with the associated T-54 THRASS
Picture Book to develop essential speaking and listening skills by matching,
naming, describing, categorizing and discussing the pictures. These cards
may also be used with the outline pictures and keywords displayed on the
class-size and desk-size picturecharts (T-02 and T-03).
Use the
cards to play ‘Question Me – Pictures’, taking turns to guess the picture.
The winner is the person that asks fewer questions. For the game Grapheme
Snap (as described on page 46 of THRASS 15 Minutes A Day x 2), shout “graph,
“digraph” or “trigraph” if the cards match (that is, if the bold
spelling-choices have one, two or three letters). If you shout the wrong one
or say “Snap” you forfeit the cards to your opponent.
Download and print the THRASS Picture Cards Sorting Sheet so that your
children can sort the cards into their rows (C1, C2, C3 ,C4, V1, V2, V3, V4)
and sections. Shuffling the cards in rows C1-C4 gives you all the cards in
the Consonant Section and shuffling the cards in V1-V4 gives you all the
cards in the Vowel Section. With practise, the children should be able to
sort the cards into eight piles without needing to use the sorting sheet and
then, if required, to organise the cards in sequential order, through
knowing where each of the pictures is located on the picturechart (perhaps, by first checking that they have the right number of cards for each row, as indicated on the sheet). Knowing
the THRASS keywords in sequential order is required for Keyword Recall (KWR),
skill T8b.
Some
children might enjoy being timed by a friend, so as to see who is able to
sort the cards in the shortest possible time, perhaps to get within a
specific time or to break a personal, group, class or school record. It
might well be that (with greater confidence) certain conditions are set for
this ‘Picture Card Sorting Game’, to act as revision and/or distraction,
where the child is required to name the row, picture, letter/s or grapheme
or, even (once they have done skill T6 Phoneme Location), to pronounce the
phoneme represented by the bold keygrapheme.
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THRASS
Picture Cards Sorting Sheet
PDF - 60KB
THRASS Picture Cards
Sorting Sheet
JPG - 320KB
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