Beginning Sounds with Clothes — Letter A

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound A makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the clothes, says each one, and marks apron — the names that open with A. Stretching apron to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter A is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of a shirt, a sock and a hat 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 A's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — apron and the rest of the clothes — and connect it to A. A scene of a shirt, a sock and a hat offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Once a child can pick the A sound out of a word like apron, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the B-sound pictures in clothes, or the C-sound pictures in clothes. Every beginning-sounds worksheet and the full clothes 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.