Beginning Sounds with Forest Creatures — Letter G

Begin with grasshopper and listen to its first sound. This sheet asks the child to find every one of the forest creatures that starts the same way as G — grasshopper and gopher — and mark them. The point is the sound at the front of each word and the letter G it belongs to, the Kindergarten letter-sound link, set in a scene mixing a fox, a deer and a hedgehog so the child sifts many opening sounds to find G's.

Beginning-sound matching is phonics, not visual searching: the child is not looking for the shape of G on the page, they are listening for which forest creatures START with its sound and connecting that sound to the letter. With grasshopper and gopher to find, the practice stays concrete, and every picture named strengthens the link between the sound the child hears and the letter G it goes with.

Listening for G across a scene of forest creatures turns phonics into a game, and finishing one letter invites the next. Try the A-sound pictures in forest creatures, or the B-sound pictures in forest creatures. Browse all the beginning-sounds worksheets or the entire forest creatures 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.