Beginning Sounds with Christmas — Letter T

The letter T sets this beginning-sound hunt. Among the Christmas things, the child marks every name that opens with the sound T makes — tree. They test each picture by saying it: tree starts with T, so it counts. Listening for an opening sound and linking it to its letter — never spotting a printed T — is the early-reading skill this Kindergarten sheet rehearses.

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

A child who hears that tree opens with the T sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the A-sound pictures in christmas, or the B-sound pictures in christmas. The full Christmas things collection and every beginning-sounds worksheet are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and every first sound a child catches builds toward sounding out whole words later. Say tree one more time, stretch out its very first sound, and feel exactly where the letter T begins it.