Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter E

On this worksheet a child sorts supermarket things by their first sound. Given the letter E, they find egg — the pictures that begin with the sound E stands for — among a scene of a cart, a basket and a till. They say egg out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to E. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

Listening for a word's first sound and matching it to a letter is foundational phonics — the link a child needs before sounding words out. Hunting the supermarket things for E rehearses it concretely: say each picture, hear the start, match the letter. With egg hiding among a cart, a basket and a till, the child compares many opening sounds in one sitting, and the connection between the E sound and its letter grows a little more automatic each time.

Hunting a scene of supermarket things for the letter E is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After E, 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.