Beginning Sounds with Fourth of July Things — Letter E

Hunt the scene for the sound of E. This Kindergarten sheet shows a busy set of Fourth of July things, and the child marks the ones whose names start with E — eagle. The trick is to say each picture and listen to its very first sound: does eagle begin the way E sounds? Matching that opening sound to its letter is foundational phonics, done entirely by ear.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like E's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — eagle and the rest of the Fourth of July things — and connect it to E. A scene of flags, stars and a drum offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

A child who hears that eagle opens with the E sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in fourth of july things, or the C-sound pictures in fourth of july things. The full Fourth of July things collection and every beginning-sounds worksheet are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and every first sound a child catches builds toward sounding out whole words later.