Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter D

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound D makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the supermarket things, says each one, and marks donut — the names that open with D. Stretching donut to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter D is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of a cart, a basket and a till 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 supermarket things that begin with D rehearses it many times: say donut, listen to its start, match D. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that D stands for one particular sound.

Hunting a scene of supermarket things for the letter D is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After D, keep the listening going with the A-sound pictures in supermarket things, or the B-sound pictures in supermarket things. The whole supermarket things collection and every beginning-sounds sheet print cleanly or play free online for kindergarten — and the more opening sounds a child sorts, the more automatic the sound-to-letter link becomes.