Beginning Sounds with Breakfast — Letter Y

Listen for the first sound in yogurt. On this sheet the child is handed the letter Y and finds every one of the breakfast foods whose name begins with its sound — yogurt all open with Y. Saying each word, catching its opening sound, then tying that sound to the letter Y is the Kindergarten letter-sound link this practises, set among an egg, a pancake and a banana.

To find what begins with Y, a child must say each picture and isolate its first sound, then judge whether it matches Y. That is the heart of early phonics — knowing the sound a letter makes and catching it at the front of words like yogurt. 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 Y is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After Y, 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.