Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter L

Which supermarket things begin with L? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with L's sound — lettuce and lemon. Sounding out the start of lettuce and deciding whether it matches the letter L is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a cart, a basket and a till, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against L.

Beginning-sound matching is phonics, not visual searching: the child is not looking for the shape of L on the page, they are listening for which supermarket things START with its sound and connecting that sound to the letter. With lettuce and lemon to find, the practice stays concrete, and every picture named strengthens the link between the sound the child hears and the letter L it goes with.

Once a child can pick the L sound out of a word like lettuce, 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.