Assignment # 1
Name:__________________ Marks: ___ / 30
Q.1: Fill in the Blanks. /14
1. In Synthetic Phonics, children first learn to recognize the ____ sounds of
letters before they begin blending them to read whole ____.
2. The process of joining individual letter sounds together to read a word is
called ____.
3. The English language has a total of ____ phonemes, which include both
vowel and ____ sounds.
4. There are 19 vowel sounds in English, which are made up of:
___ short vowels, ___ long vowels, ____ diphthongs, ____ 'oo' sounds,
3 ____-controlled vowels, 2 special sounds
5. Synthetic Phonics focuses on five ____ of learning: learning the letter ___,
learning letter ____, blending, segmenting, and spelling tricky _____.
Q.2: Match the action with the correct letter sound. Write the letter (like s, a,
t) next to the action. /6
1. Pretend ants crawling on your arm __
2. Move like a snake, making a sound __
3. Rub tummy in circles as if food smells yummy __
4. Pretend to fly like an airplane with arms out __
5. Pretend to click castanets with hands __
6. Pretend to drum with two fists __
Q.3: Write one example of how you would use the Three Period Lesson to
teach a new concept to a child. /5
(Briefly describe the 3 steps: Introduction, Recognition, Pronounciation.)
Q.4: Make 5 simple words using only Group 2 letters (c, k, e, h, r, m, d). /5
(Use any 2 or 3 letters to form real or meaningful words — example: “red”,
“her”)