Beginning Sounds with Bakery Treats — Letter M

Begin with muffin and listen to its first sound. This sheet asks the child to find every one of the bakery treats that starts the same way as M — muffin — and mark them. The point is the sound at the front of each word and the letter M it belongs to, the Kindergarten letter-sound link, set in a scene mixing a bagel, a bun and a cake so the child sifts many opening sounds to find M's.

Producing the match — deciding that muffin begins with M — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound M makes in mind and test each picture's opening against it. Because the bakery treats include names that begin other ways, the child cannot guess; they have to listen. That careful sound-by-sound checking against the letter M is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

Listening for M across a scene of bakery treats turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the B-sound pictures in bakery treats, or the C-sound pictures in bakery treats. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire bakery treats 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.