Beginning Sounds with Breakfast — Letter C

On this worksheet a child sorts breakfast foods by their first sound. Given the letter C, they find cheese, cereal and croissant — the pictures that begin with the sound C stands for — among a scene of an egg, a pancake and a banana. They say cheese out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to C. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

To find what begins with C, a child must say each picture and isolate its first sound, then judge whether it matches C. That is the heart of early phonics — knowing the sound a letter makes and catching it at the front of words like cheese. The varied an egg, a pancake and a banana keep a wide set of opening sounds in play, so the work never narrows to one rehearsed answer; the child really has to listen.

Hunting a scene of breakfast foods for the letter C is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After C, keep the listening going with the A-sound pictures in breakfast, or the B-sound pictures in breakfast. The whole breakfast foods 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.