Beginning Sounds with Forest Creatures — Letter F

This Kindergarten sheet is all about the sound F makes at the start of a word. The child hunts the forest creatures, says each one, and marks fox, frog and firefly — the names that open with F. Stretching fox to hear its first sound and tying it to the letter F is how children learn the sound-letter links that reading will lean on, and a scene of a fox, a deer and a hedgehog supplies plenty to sort.

Matching a sound to its letter is what eventually lets a child decode words, and it starts with beginning sounds like F's. This sheet has the child hear the opening of each picture — fox and the rest of the forest creatures — and connect it to F. A scene of a fox, a deer and a hedgehog offers many first sounds, so the sound-letter link gets rehearsed across a rich mix of words rather than drilled one at a time.

Hunting a scene of forest creatures for the letter F is the kind of quiet phonics that adds up fast. After F, keep the listening going with the A-sound pictures in forest creatures, or the B-sound pictures in forest creatures. The whole forest creatures 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.