Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter C

Which supermarket things begin with C? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with C's sound — cash register, cart and corn. Sounding out the start of cash register and deciding whether it matches the letter C is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a cart, a basket and a till, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against C.

Linking the letter C to the sound it makes is the bedrock of Kindergarten reading, and this hunt practises it directly: the child hears the first sound of cash register and decides it belongs to C. This is letter-SOUND work, not letter-shape recognition — a child has to know what C sounds like, then catch that sound at the start of words like cash register, cart and corn, long before they could read those words on their own.

Children who enjoy hunting the supermarket things settle into saying each picture and listening for the C sound, and every match is a small win. When C feels easy, try the beginning sounds in the A-sound pictures in supermarket things, or the B-sound pictures in supermarket things. You can also browse every beginning-sounds worksheet or the whole supermarket things collection for kindergarten — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more first sounds a child hunts, the quicker the link between a sound and its letter becomes automatic.