Beginning Sounds with Fourth of July Things — Letter I

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound I makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the Fourth of July things, says each one, and marks ice cream — the names that open with I. Stretching ice cream to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter I is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of flags, stars and a drum supplies plenty to sort.

Producing the match — deciding that ice cream begins with I — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound I makes in mind and test each picture's opening against it. Because the Fourth of July things include names that begin other ways, the child cannot guess; they have to listen. That careful sound-by-sound checking against the letter I is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

Hunting a scene of Fourth of July things for the letter I is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After I, keep the listening going with the B-sound pictures in fourth of july things, or the C-sound pictures in fourth of july things. The whole Fourth of July things collection and every beginning-sounds sheet print cleanly or play free online for kindergarten — and the more opening sounds a child sorts, the more automatic the sound-to-letter link becomes.