Beginning Sounds with Desserts and Sweets — Letter T

Which sweet treats begin with T? On this Kindergarten worksheet the child says each picture and keeps the ones that start with T's sound — tart. Sounding out the start of tart and deciding whether it matches the letter T is letter-sound work, the bedrock of reading. The scene is full of a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie, so there are plenty of first sounds to compare against T.

To find what begins with T, a child must say each picture and isolate its first sound, then judge whether it matches T. That is the heart of early phonics — knowing the sound a letter makes and catching it at the front of words like tart. The varied a cupcake, a lollipop and a pie keep a wide set of opening sounds in play, so the work never narrows to one rehearsed answer; the child really has to listen.

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