Beginning Sounds with Christmas — Letter L

A first-sound sorting game with the letter L: the child scans the Christmas things and marks lights, the names that begin with the sound L stands for. They say lights, hear its opening sound, and match it to L — not by finding a letter on the page but by listening. That sound-to-letter connection is exactly what Kindergarten readers are building, and a scene of a tree, a bauble and a stocking keeps it concrete.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like L's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — lights and the rest of the Christmas things — and connect it to L. A scene of a tree, a bauble and a stocking offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Children who enjoy hunting the Christmas things settle into saying each picture and listening for the L sound, and every match is a small win. When L feels easy, try the beginning sounds in the A-sound pictures in christmas, or the B-sound pictures in christmas. You can also browse every beginning-sounds worksheet or the whole Christmas things collection for kindergarten — each sheet prints cleanly or plays online for free, and the more first sounds a child hunts, the quicker the link between a sound and its letter becomes automatic.