Beginning Sounds with Body Parts — Letter S

Which body parts begin with S? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with S's sound — skeleton and shoulder. Sounding out the start of skeleton and deciding whether it matches the letter S is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a hand, a foot and an ear, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against S.

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

Hunting a scene of body parts for the letter S is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After S, keep the listening going with the A-sound pictures in body parts, or the B-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.