Beginning Sounds with Activities — Letter T

Find the T sound among the action pictures. The child works across the scene, saying each picture and keeping the ones that begin with T — theater and tennis. It is listening, not looking: theater starts with T's sound, so it is marked, while running, jumping and swimming 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.

To find what begins with T, a child must say each picture and isolate its first sound, then judge whether it matches T. That is the heart of early phonics — knowing the sound a letter makes and catching it at the front of words like theater. The varied running, jumping and swimming keep a wide set of opening sounds in play, so the work never narrows to one rehearsed answer; the child really has to listen.

A child who hears that theater opens with the T sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in activities, or the C-sound pictures in activities. The full action pictures 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.