Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter M

This Kindergarten beginning-sounds worksheet sends the child hunting for the letter M. In a scene of supermarket things, they say each picture aloud and mark the ones that START with the sound M makes — here muffin, mushroom and melon. It is the sound that matters, not the printed letter shape: the child listens for how muffin begins and links that opening sound to M, which is exactly how early phonics gets going.

Producing the match — deciding that muffin begins with M — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound M 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 M is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

Once a child can pick the M sound out of a word like muffin, 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.