Beginning Sounds with Classroom Objects — Letter B

Listen for the first sound in binder. On this sheet the child is handed the letter B and finds every one of the classroom objects whose name begins with its sound — binder, backpack and book all open with B. Saying each word, catching its opening sound, then tying that sound to the letter B is the Kindergarten letter-sound link this practises, set among a pencil, a book and a globe.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like B's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — binder and the rest of the classroom objects — and connect it to B. A scene of a pencil, a book and a globe offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Listening for B across a scene of classroom objects turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the C-sound pictures in classroom objects, or the D-sound pictures in classroom objects. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire classroom objects set, free to print or play online for kindergarten, and watch how quickly a child starts catching the first sound in a word on their own.