Beginning Sounds with Household Things — Letter C

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound C makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the household things, says each one, and marks cushion, curtains and comb — the names that open with C. Stretching cushion to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter C is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of a lamp, a chair and a clock supplies plenty to sort.

Producing the match — deciding that cushion begins with C — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound C makes in mind and test each picture's opening against it. Because the household things include names that begin other ways, the child cannot guess; they have to listen. That careful sound-by-sound checking against the letter C is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

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