Beginning Sounds with Body Parts — Letter F

Begin with finger and listen to its first sound. This sheet asks the child to find every one of the body parts that starts the same way as F — finger, face and foot — and mark them. The point is the sound at the front of each word and the letter F it belongs to, the Kindergarten letter-sound link, set in a scene mixing a hand, a foot and an ear so the child sifts many opening sounds to find F's.

Linking the letter F to the sound it makes is the bedrock of Kindergarten reading, and this hunt practises it directly: the child hears the first sound of finger and decides it belongs to F. This is letter-SOUND work, not letter-shape recognition — a child has to know what F sounds like, then catch that sound at the start of words like finger, face and foot, long before they could read those words on their own.

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