Beginning Sounds with Easter — Letter E

Tune the ear to E. Across a scene of Easter things, this Kindergarten worksheet has the child say each picture and circle the ones that begin with the sound E makes — egg. Hearing how egg opens and matching that sound to the letter E is beginning-sound phonics; the printed letter shape never comes into it. The an egg, a bunny and a basket give a rich mix of first sounds to listen through.

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 Easter things that begin with E rehearses it many times: say egg, listen to its start, match E. Because the child works from pictures and their own voice, no reading is needed — just the ear and the growing sense that E stands for one particular sound.

A child who hears that egg opens with the E sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in easter, or the C-sound pictures in easter. The full Easter things 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.