Beginning Sounds with Fourth of July Things — Letter W

This Kindergarten beginning-sounds worksheet sends the child hunting for the letter W. In a scene of Fourth of July things, they say each picture aloud and mark the ones that START with the sound W makes — here watermelon. It is the sound that matters, not the printed letter shape: the child listens for how watermelon begins and links that opening sound to W, which is exactly how early phonics gets going.

Linking the letter W to the sound it makes is the bedrock of Kindergarten reading, and this hunt practises it directly: the child hears the first sound of watermelon and decides it belongs to W. This is letter-SOUND work, not letter-shape recognition — a child has to know what W sounds like, then catch that sound at the start of words like watermelon, long before they could read those words on their own.

A child who hears that watermelon opens with the W 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.