Beginning Sounds with Beach Things — Letter K

On this worksheet a child sorts beach things by their first sound. Given the letter K, they find kite — the pictures that begin with the sound K stands for — among a scene of a bucket, a spade and a starfish. They say kite out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to K. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like K's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — kite and the rest of the beach things — and connect it to K. A scene of a bucket, a spade and a starfish offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

A child who hears that kite opens with the K sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in beach things, or the C-sound pictures in beach things. The full beach 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.