Beginning Sounds with Fourth of July Things — Letter U

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

Hearing the opening sound of a spoken word and tying it to a letter is exactly the letter-sound correspondence Kindergarten readers build. Marking the Fourth of July things that begin with U rehearses it many times: say uncle sam, listen to its start, match U. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that U stands for one particular sound.

Hunting a scene of Fourth of July things for the letter U is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After U, 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.