Beginning Sounds with Activities — Letter V

Which action pictures begin with V? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with V's sound — violin. Sounding out the start of violin and deciding whether it matches the letter V 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 V.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like V's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — violin and the rest of the action pictures — and connect it to V. A scene of running, jumping and swimming offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Hunting a scene of action pictures for the letter V is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After V, keep the listening going with the B-sound pictures in activities, or the C-sound pictures in activities. The whole action pictures collection and every beginning-sounds sheet print cleanly or play free online for kindergarten — and the more opening sounds a child sorts, the more automatic the sound-to-letter link becomes.