Beginning Sounds with Desserts and Sweets — Letter L

Begin with lollipop and listen to its first sound. This sheet asks the child to find every one of the sweet treats that starts the same way as L — lollipop — and mark them. The point is the sound at the front of each word and the letter L it belongs to, the Kindergarten letter-sound link, set in a scene mixing a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie so the child sifts many opening sounds to find L's.

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 L rehearses it concretely: say each picture, hear the start, match the letter. With lollipop hiding among a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie, 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.

Listening for L across a scene of sweet treats turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the C-sound pictures in desserts and sweets, or the D-sound pictures in desserts and sweets. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire sweet treats 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.