Beginning Sounds with Activities — Letter W

Say it, hear the start, match the letter W. The child looks over the action pictures on this sheet and circles each one that begins with W's sound — writing. Because writing opens with that sound, it gets marked; pictures that begin another way do not. Catching the first sound of a spoken word and tying it to a letter is the heart of Kindergarten phonics, practised here across a scene of running, jumping and swimming.

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

Listening for W across a scene of action pictures turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the B-sound pictures in activities, or the C-sound pictures in activities. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire action pictures set, free to print or play online for kindergarten, and watch how quickly a child starts catching the first sound in a word on their own.