Beginning Sounds with Classroom Objects — Letter L

On this worksheet a child sorts classroom objects by their first sound. Given the letter L, they find librarian and lunchbox — the pictures that begin with the sound L stands for — among a scene of a pencil, a book and a globe. They say librarian out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to L. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

The Kindergarten skill here is letter-sound correspondence: knowing the sound L makes and recognizing it at the start of a spoken word. Finding librarian and lunchbox trains it without any reading — the child works from the pictures and says each word aloud. Tying the sound at the front of librarian to the letter L, again and again, builds the habit that blending and decoding will later rely on.

A child who hears that librarian opens with the L sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in classroom objects, or the C-sound pictures in classroom objects. The full classroom objects 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.