Beginning Sounds with Activities — Letter K

Which action pictures begin with K? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with K's sound — knitting. Sounding out the start of knitting and deciding whether it matches the letter K is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of running, jumping and swimming, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against K.

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 action pictures that begin with K rehearses it many times: say knitting, listen to its start, match K. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that K stands for one particular sound.

Once a child can pick the K sound out of a word like knitting, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the B-sound pictures in activities, or the C-sound pictures in activities. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full action pictures 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.