Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter O

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

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

Listening for O across a scene of supermarket things turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the A-sound pictures in supermarket things, or the B-sound pictures in supermarket things. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire supermarket things set, free to print or play online for kindergarten, and watch how quickly a child starts catching the first sound in a word on their own.