Beginning Sounds with Desserts and Sweets — Letter C

Tune the ear to C. Across a scene of sweet treats, this Kindergarten worksheet has the child say each picture and circle the ones that begin with the sound C makes — cupcake, cinnamon roll and candy cane. Hearing how cupcake opens and matching that sound to the letter C is beginning-sound phonics; the printed letter shape never comes into it. The a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie give a rich mix of first sounds to listen through.

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 sweet treats for C rehearses it concretely: say each picture, hear the start, match the letter. With cupcake, cinnamon roll and candy cane hiding among a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie, the child compares many opening sounds in one sitting, and the connection between the C sound and its letter grows a little more automatic each time.

Hunting a scene of sweet treats for the letter C is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After C, keep the listening going with the D-sound pictures in desserts and sweets, or the G-sound pictures in desserts and sweets. The whole sweet treats 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.