Beginning Sounds with Household Things — Letter L

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound L makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the household things, says each one, and marks lawn mower, lamp and light switch — the names that open with L. Stretching lawn mower to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter L 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.

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

A child who hears that lawn mower opens with the L sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the A-sound pictures in household things, or the B-sound pictures in household things. The full household things 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.