Beginning Sounds with Classroom Objects — Letter G

Find the G sound among the classroom objects. The child works across the scene, saying each picture and keeping the ones that begin with G — globe and glue. It is listening, not looking: globe starts with G's sound, so it is marked, while a pencil, a book and a globe that begin differently are left. Matching a word's opening sound to its letter is the Kindergarten phonics move this rehearses, one picture at a time.

Producing the match — deciding that globe begins with G — asks a child to do real phonics: hold the sound G makes in mind and test each picture's opening against it. Because the classroom objects include names that begin other ways, the child cannot guess; they have to listen. That careful sound-by-sound checking against the letter G is precisely what Kindergarten reading is built on.

Once a child can pick the G sound out of a word like globe, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the B-sound pictures in classroom objects, or the C-sound pictures in classroom objects. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full classroom objects set are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and each first sound a child names makes the next letter that little bit quicker to catch.