Beginning Sounds with Fourth of July Things — Letter C

Listen for the first sound in cake. On this sheet the child is handed the letter C and finds every one of the Fourth of July things whose name begins with its sound — cake all open with C. Saying each word, catching its opening sound, then tying that sound to the letter C is the Kindergarten letter-sound link this practises, set among flags, stars and a drum.

The Kindergarten skill here is letter-sound correspondence: knowing the sound C makes and recognizing it at the start of a spoken word. Finding cake trains it without any reading — the child works from the pictures and says each word aloud. Tying the sound at the front of cake to the letter C, again and again, builds the habit that blending and decoding will later rely on.

Listening for C across a scene of Fourth of July things turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the B-sound pictures in fourth of july things, or the E-sound pictures in fourth of july things. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire Fourth of July things set, free to print or play online for kindergarten, and watch how quickly a child starts catching the first sound in a word on their own.