Beginning Sounds with Classroom Objects — Letter R

Which classroom objects begin with R? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with R's sound — ruler. Sounding out the start of ruler and deciding whether it matches the letter R is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a pencil, a book and a globe, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against R.

Linking the letter R to the sound it makes is the bedrock of Kindergarten reading, and this hunt practises it directly: the child hears the first sound of ruler and decides it belongs to R. This is letter-SOUND work, not letter-shape recognition — a child has to know what R sounds like, then catch that sound at the start of words like ruler, long before they could read those words on their own.

Hunting a scene of classroom objects for the letter R is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After R, keep the listening going with the B-sound pictures in classroom objects, or the C-sound pictures in classroom objects. The whole classroom objects collection and every beginning-sounds sheet print cleanly or play free online for kindergarten — and the more opening sounds a child sorts, the more automatic the sound-to-letter link becomes.