Beginning Sounds with Classroom Objects — Letter S

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

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like S's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — scissors and the rest of the classroom objects — and connect it to S. 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 S across a scene of classroom objects turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the B-sound pictures in classroom objects, or the C-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.