Beginning Sounds with Body Parts — Letter H

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

Beginning-sound matching is phonics, not visual searching: the child is not looking for the shape of H on the page, they are listening for which body parts START with its sound and connecting that sound to the letter. With hair, heart and hand to find, the practice stays concrete, and every picture named strengthens the link between the sound the child hears and the letter H it goes with.

A child who hears that hair opens with the H sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the A-sound pictures in body parts, or the B-sound pictures in body parts. The full body parts 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.