Beginning Sounds with Household Things — Letter R

Say it, hear the start, match the letter R. The child looks over the household things on this sheet and circles each one that begins with R's sound — refrigerator, remote control and rug. Because refrigerator 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 a lamp, a chair and a clock.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like R's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — refrigerator and the rest of the household things — and connect it to R. A scene of a lamp, a chair and a clock offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

A child who hears that refrigerator opens with the R 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.