Beginning Sounds with Body Parts — Letter B

On this worksheet a child sorts body parts by their first sound. Given the letter B, they find brain — the pictures that begin with the sound B stands for — among a scene of a hand, a foot and an ear. They say brain out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to B. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

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

Hunting a scene of body parts for the letter B is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After B, keep the listening going with the A-sound pictures in body parts, or the C-sound pictures in body parts. The whole body parts collection and every beginning-sounds sheet print cleanly or play free online for kindergarten — and the more opening sounds a child sorts, the more automatic the sound-to-letter link becomes.