Beginning Sounds with Supermarket Things — Letter W

The letter W sets this beginning-sound hunt. Among the supermarket things, the child marks every name that opens with the sound W makes — water. They test each picture by saying it: water starts with W, so it counts. Listening for an opening sound and linking it to its letter — never spotting a printed W — is the early-reading skill this Kindergarten sheet rehearses.

To find what begins with W, a child must say each picture and isolate its first sound, then judge whether it matches W. That is the heart of early phonics — knowing the sound a letter makes and catching it at the front of words like water. The varied a cart, a basket and a till keep a wide set of opening sounds in play, so the work never narrows to one rehearsed answer; the child really has to listen.

A child who hears that water opens with the W sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the A-sound pictures in supermarket things, or the B-sound pictures in supermarket things. The full supermarket things collection and every beginning-sounds worksheet are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and every first sound a child catches builds toward sounding out whole words later.