Beginning Sounds with Classroom Objects — Letter N

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound N makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the classroom objects, says each one, and marks notebook — the names that open with N. Stretching notebook to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter N is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of a pencil, a book and a globe supplies plenty to sort.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like N's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — notebook and the rest of the classroom objects — and connect it to N. 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.

A child who hears that notebook opens with the N 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.