Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter R

Listen for the first sound in raspberry. On this sheet the child is handed the letter R and finds every one of the supermarket things whose name begins with its sound — raspberry and rice all open with R. Saying each word, catching its opening sound, then tying that sound to the letter R is the Kindergarten letter-sound link this practises, set among a cart, a basket and a till.

The Kindergarten skill here is letter-sound correspondence: knowing the sound R makes and recognizing it at the start of a spoken word. Finding raspberry and rice trains it without any reading — the child works from the pictures and says each word aloud. Tying the sound at the front of raspberry to the letter R, again and again, builds the habit that blending and decoding will later rely on.

Once a child can pick the R sound out of a word like raspberry, 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.