Beginning Sounds with Farm Animals — Letter T

Find the T sound among the farm animals. The child works across the scene, saying each picture and keeping the ones that begin with T — turkey. It is listening, not looking: turkey starts with T's sound, so it is marked, while a cow, a pig and a goat that begin differently are left. Matching a word's opening sound to its letter is the Kindergarten phonics move this rehearses, one picture at a time.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like T's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — turkey and the rest of the farm animals — and connect it to T. A scene of a cow, a pig and a goat offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

A child who hears that turkey opens with the T sound is doing real reading groundwork, one picture at a time. Keep going with the B-sound pictures in farm animals, or the C-sound pictures in farm animals. The full farm animals 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.