Beginning Sounds with Bakery Treats — Letter C

Hunt the scene for the sound of C. This Kindergarten sheet shows a busy set of bakery treats, and the child marks the ones whose names start with C — cheesecake, cake and cinnamon roll. The trick is to say each picture and listen to its very first sound: does cheesecake begin the way C sounds? Matching that opening sound to its letter is foundational phonics, done entirely by ear.

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 bakery treats that begin with C rehearses it many times: say cheesecake, listen to its start, match C. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that C stands for one particular sound.

A child who hears that cheesecake opens with the C sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in bakery treats, or the D-sound pictures in bakery treats. The full bakery treats 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.