Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter F

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

Producing the match — deciding that fish begins with F — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound F makes in mind and test each picture's opening against it. Because the supermarket things include names that begin other ways, the child cannot guess; they have to listen. That careful sound-by-sound checking against the letter F is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

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