Beginning Sounds with Clothes — Letter L

This Kindergarten beginning-sounds worksheet sends the child hunting for the letter L. In a scene of clothes, they say each picture aloud and mark the ones that START with the sound L makes — here leggings. It is the sound that matters, not the printed letter shape: the child listens for how leggings begins and links that opening sound to L, which is exactly how early phonics gets going.

Listening for a word's first sound and matching it to a letter is foundational phonics — the link a child needs before sounding words out. Hunting the clothes for L rehearses it concretely: say each picture, hear the start, match the letter. With leggings hiding among a shirt, a sock and a hat, the child compares many opening sounds in one sitting, and the connection between the L sound and its letter grows a little more automatic each time.

Once a child can pick the L sound out of a word like leggings, that same careful listening works everywhere. When this sheet feels easy, move on to the A-sound pictures in clothes, or the B-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.