Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter H

Find the H sound among the supermarket things. The child works across the scene, saying each picture and keeping the ones that begin with H — ham. It is listening, not looking: ham starts with H's sound, so it is marked, while a cart, a basket and a till that begin differently are left. Matching a word's opening sound to its letter is the Kindergarten phonics move this rehearses, one picture at a time.

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

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