Beginning Sounds with Accessories — Letter P

Which accessories begin with P? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with P's sound — party hat and purse. Sounding out the start of party hat and deciding whether it matches the letter P is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of hats, belts and a scarf, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against P.

Listening for a word's first sound and matching it to a letter is foundational phonics — the link a child needs before sounding words out. Hunting the accessories for P rehearses it concretely: say each picture, hear the start, match the letter. With party hat and purse hiding among hats, belts and a scarf, the child compares many opening sounds in one sitting, and the connection between the P sound and its letter grows a little more automatic each time.

Once a child can pick the P sound out of a word like party hat, 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.