Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter P

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

Hearing the opening sound of a spoken word and tying it to a letter is exactly the letter-sound correspondence Kindergarten readers build. Marking the supermarket things that begin with P rehearses it many times: say pumpkin, listen to its start, match P. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that P stands for one particular sound.

Listening for P 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.