Beginning Sounds with Body Parts — Letter T

Listen for the first sound in toe. On this sheet the child is handed the letter T and finds every one of the body parts whose name begins with its sound — toe, tooth and thumb all open with T. Saying each word, catching its opening sound, then tying that sound to the letter T is the Kindergarten letter-sound link this practises, set among a hand, a foot and an ear.

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

Hunting a scene of body parts for the letter T is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After T, 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.