Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter G

The letter G sets this beginning-sound hunt. Among the supermarket things, the child marks every name that opens with the sound G makes — garlic and grapes. They test each picture by saying it: garlic starts with G, so it counts. Listening for an opening sound and linking it to its letter — never spotting a printed G — is the early-reading skill this Kindergarten sheet rehearses.

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

Once a child can pick the G sound out of a word like garlic, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the A-sound pictures in supermarket things, or the B-sound pictures in supermarket things. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full supermarket things set are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and each first sound a child names makes the next letter that little bit quicker to catch.