Beginning Sounds with Accessories — Letter E

Find the E sound among the accessories. The child works across the scene, saying each picture and keeping the ones that begin with E — earmuffs. It is listening, not looking: earmuffs starts with E's sound, so it is marked, while hats, belts and a scarf that begin differently are left. Matching a word's opening sound to its letter is the Kindergarten phonics move this rehearses, one picture at a time.

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 — earmuffs and the rest of the accessories — and connect it to E. A scene of hats, belts and a scarf offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Once a child can pick the E sound out of a word like earmuffs, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the A-sound pictures in accessories, or the B-sound pictures in accessories. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full accessories set are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and each first sound a child names makes the next letter that little bit quicker to catch.