Beginning Sounds with Desserts and Sweets — Letter G

On this worksheet a child sorts sweet treats by their first sound. Given the letter G, they find gingerbread man — the pictures that begin with the sound G stands for — among a scene of a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie. They say gingerbread man out loud, hear where it starts, and connect that sound to G. This is beginning-sound matching, the Kindergarten skill of linking a sound to its letter, not a search for the letter's shape.

Hearing the opening sound of a spoken word and tying it to a letter is exactly the letter-sound correspondence Kindergarten readers build. Marking the sweet treats that begin with G rehearses it many times: say gingerbread man, listen to its start, match G. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that G stands for one particular sound.

A child who hears that gingerbread man opens with the G sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the C-sound pictures in desserts and sweets, or the D-sound pictures in desserts and sweets. The full sweet treats collection and every beginning-sounds worksheet are free to print or play online for kindergarten, and every first sound a child catches builds toward sounding out whole words later.